That procedure is called an MTAWipe. The old mtadata files that you have not yet copied over contain undelivered mail; there's an article on how to manually replay MTA .DAT files.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: RE: IMS woes > We had a very similar problem (albeit without the VPN piece) and here was > the final solution, step-by-step from PSS when all was said and done. > Turned out our problem had nothing to do with the IMC but was, in fact, the > MTA. Maybe it will help. Hope it does. > > Resolution: > =========== > Stopped the MTA. > Renamed the MtaData directory (which we have not deleted yet). > Copied the MTADATA directory from the Exchange 5.5 CD, selected ALL files > and removed the read only attribute. > Cut and pasted ALL the *.DAT files into the relevant \\Exchsrvr\Mtadata > directory. > Cut and pasted the remaining files into the relevant \\Exchsrvr\Mtadata > directory. > Ran an MtaCheck /v 3 times. > Re-applied service pack 4 for Exchange and restarted the MTA and IMC. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friese, Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:40 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: IMS woes > > > Exchange 5.5 SP4, NT 4.0 SP6a > > I have a second IMS that I use to send mail securley to clients. I've run > into an issue that I have never seen before. We are able to receive > messages from all of our clients without a problem however, they do not > receive any messages from us. This started happening 2 days ago and up > until that point everything has been working fine for a little over a year. > > The client connections are all configured VPN tunnels through my firewall > directly to my IMS server. I can telnet from my IMS server and from my > firewall to port 25 of every client's mail server and successfully send > messages to them via that approach. This tells me that the tunnel is up and > working. Whenever I send a message from outlook, the clients never receive > the message. The messages do not appear in the queue and no undeliverables > are received. My event logs are sparodic but do show messages being sent to > the client sites as well does my firewall logs. > > I have to believe that this problem is on my side because we have only 5 > clients using this IMS for secure mail and non of them can receive messages > from us. > > Anyone have any ideas on what is causing this and where to look? > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > > > NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachment to this e-mail message > contains confidential information that may be legally privileged. If you are > not the intended recipient, you must not review, retransmit, convert to hard > copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it. If you > have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by return > e-mail or by telephone at 954-764-6660 and delete this message. Please note > that if this e-mail message contains a forwarded message or is a reply to a > prior message, some or all of the contents of this message or any > attachments may not have been produced by Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster, > & Russell, P.A. > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
