what kind of AV are you running? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alverson, Thomas M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:28 PM Subject: EX55 sp4: Inbound IMC messages stuck problem update
> A few days ago I reported a problem with inbound emails getting stuck in the > IMC inbound queue. Here are some more details: > > This has happened 3 different times so far. The first time the IMC had > stopped processing all inbound traffic. I tried to stop it with control > panel/services but it would not stop. I finally forcibly ended the > MSEXCIMC.EXE process with task manager and then restarted it. The first > time the large backlog of inbound files started to flow and I was left with > 4 messages that would not transfer. I tried stopping IMC again (it would > never stop via control panel once it had seen one of these bad emails) but > it would not process them even after deleting queue.dat (while imc was > stopped). > > I gave up on the 4 emails and let it run for a while but after a few hours > two more emails got stuck. Again I had to forcibly terminate the IMC > process and delete queue.dat. I also discovered that if I tried to view the > queues with exchange admin, that the admin program would freeze when I tried > to select the MTS-IN queue on the IMC. I could look at the IMC inbound > queue and see the messages that weren't being processed (and they were > sitting there in the IMCDATA/IN directory). All I could do is remove them > from the IN directory and stop/restart IMC while deleting queue.dat. If I > tried to reintroduce one of the 'bad' messages to the IN directory (by > stopping IMC, deleting queue.dat, copying the file to IN and restarting IMC) > it would fail in the same fashion. The weird part is that after the first > restart of IMC, it would still process other inbound emails. This happened > a third time (with two similar messages) and again I moved them out of the > IN directory. It has been running for a whole day now without getting stuck > on a message. I looked at all the 'bad' messages and did not see anything > unusual about them. I did not see anything at all in the event log for > these messages. I currently have all of the imc log settings at maximum in > case it happens again. > > > Tom > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
