After spending 6 hours cleaning stores the problems remain. Let me summarize...
External email works fine and has thoughout the event. I can send email to a bounce account and it responds without issue, with the exception of when mail piles up in the lookup and pre submission queue. LAN Outlook 2003 clients get, "outlook is trying to retrieve data from the microsoft exchange server" , all the time. If the Exchange server is restarted, LAN clients can connect and send/receive mail for 10 -20 minutes then back to the above message and no email delivery. In the meantime I have checked to make DNS and DHCP is working properly. DCPROMO'd an additional DC/GC with AD/DNS local with no change in behavior of Exchange server. I think the LAN clients difficulty connecting and the fact that both Exchange servers had problems at the same time points to and AD/security related issue. Your thoughts are welcomed. MS is to call me tomorrow am to follow up. It would be very cool to have a solution before they call. The client would think so too! Cheers. ________________________________ From: Stephan Barr On Behalf Of lists Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2000 sp3 with sp3 rollup.(Windows 2000 AD) mail flow problem PSS on the line now. They think it's a corrupted database. From: Stephan Barr On Behalf Of lists Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:24 PM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' Subject: Exchange 2000 sp3 with sp3 rollup.(Windows 2000 AD) mail flow problem Two Exchange servers in site, both fully patched. One is a cold standby. Both behaving the same. Moved mailboxes from primary to secondary and issue remains. Messages stack up in the SMTP queue and local/VPN'd Outlook 2003 clients get, "outlook is trying to retrieve data from the microsoft exchange server". The server(s) have worked perfectly for about 2 years and suddenly this mailflow issue. Turned up logging to medium in Exchange Transport. Not seeing any errors/warnings in the event log. Initlally thought it was a network connectivity issue but now think it could be AD/security related. Local clients get the disconnection message but the server always responds to a bounceback account I have setup to always reply to me upon receipt. I am remote to the site where the Exchange boxes are. Netdiag and addiag are clean. A restart clears the queue and the server works fine for a few minutes then the queue starts filling again. Rambling here I know... Any ideas? ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
