Hehe... am I good or what? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:19 PM Subject: RE: IMS woes
> Good point here. My original MTA was trashed most likely because of Norton. > Our IMC is on a web server which I really don't do anything with as far as > administration. I deliberately never installed anything other than Antigen > on that server but unbeknownst to me, the webmaster had manually mapped a > drive from his workstation and was scanning both c$ and d$ with Norton. As > far as PSS and I could tell, this is probably what hosed it in the first > place. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:02 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: IMS woes > > > May not be the MTA; what AV are you running? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Friese, Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:14 PM > Subject: RE: IMS woes > > > > Ok, one other question as well. Myself as well as my boss wants to know > how > > the MTA becomes hosed like this...any ideas? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Friese, Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:03 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: IMS woes > > > > > > Ok...I stopped and restarted the MTA and IMS. I didn't do everything that > > you said Dave but I now see all of the messages sitting in my IMS queue. > > Question now is, should I still proceede with the method outlined for you > by > > PSS? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michel, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:56 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > 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? > > > > > 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. 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