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]
