We had 2 servers running HT during migration, and went down to 1 about 2 weeks ago, but only had 1 before forever. I did see that the HT had an unlimited send/recv size although we have a max size on smtp and the spam filter so I fixed that.
I turned the server we migrated away from which was still on back into HT and had the same problem with it too! So I let it keep going and I reset the HT by deleting mail.que about 5 times and then it seemed to fix itself a bit and I was good. I must have a disconnect somewhere because although HT was running and obviously falling behind if you look at the actual queues themselves they were 0 on both servers but the mail.que would just build up. One of the files was 4.9gb and became corrupted I moved the queue folder out and ran a repair and afterwards it was 2mb. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Is there just one HT? Sounds like you are being bitten either by the transport dumpster or by something huge trying to come into your HT. You do have limits set on the connectors, right? (And I mean on the CONNECTORS, not at the global level or per-user level.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues We don't have rollup 2 for exchange sp3, according to windows update. The only errors I really get is starting transport service then you see the logiles replaying in the eventvwr but it goes basically in circles you can see it go all the way from oldest to newest then it starts bouncing around and 45 mins later it says completed but the transport is already in 'starting' so nothing I can do but wipe and try again. Thx From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Im checking if any updates have been applied recently but this is 2007sp3 at minimum. WSUS shows last updates @ 12/5/2010 I did that btw, and what happens is the mail.que built up to 3gb in about 20 mins with hundreds of log files, if I stop the transport (or reboot) when it comes back on it starts replaying all the logfiles and then times out. Then I get database dirty shutdown and I have to pull it out. Whats odd is that during this time mail is delivering just fine it seems when we send test emails back and forth and the email transactions on the server in that time frame is just a few hundred and nowhere near 3gb, so im wondering if we are losing mail or the transport role is corrupted. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues stop msexchangetransport rename/move both the logs AND the database start msexchangetransport THat is - start over. You didn't answer the question about whether you were current on service packs and update rollups or whether any tasks were aborting. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> _____ From: Level 5 - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues No, just replaying log files, it takes well over 2 hours to go through it. the mail.que is 5.9gb, and the queue is basically empty when I get it running. There was a couple of iis warning about .net having a locked process or something but not sure if its related. I moved the logfiles out and bounced the server, transport came up and said it found 191 messages (in a 5.9gb file?) . The system basically works for a few hours, then backs up in the queues and then the only fix is to wipe the transport folder and bounce the box and make a new mail.que From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Are you current on service packs and update rollups? Are any tasks aborting? Are there any errors in the event logs? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: corrupt transport queues This am we had some corrupt transport queue, a 2.1gb mail.que file and logfiles. I pulled them out and bounced the server, everything started we got about 800 messages in queue it dropped to about 530 and then stopped again. restarting the transport service yields the same results. I get all the logfiles replaying then a timed out message and then it starts replaying the logs again and again in a loop. 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