MTA not working?

[JimPletcher]

Early this week, the C:drive filled up on a Wondows SBS 2000 server w/Exchange 2000.

Everything ground to a halt, and it took quite a while to get the server running again (deleting trash from C.

Unfortunately, now internal e-mail doesn't work. All services seem to be running normally.

The event log contains this message for each e-mail attempt.
"A non-delivery report (reason code unable-to-transfer and diagnostic code unrecognised-OR-name) is being generated for message . . . it was riginally destined for . . . . and was redirected to. [MTA DISP:RESULT 17 136] (12)"

Any ideas?

 

[snootalope]

Reboot?

 

[JimPletcher]

Too many reboots to count.
Almost ready to wipe hard drive & start over.

 

[snootalope]

What a great time to upgrade to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003!

Although that'd be nice, probably not possible. Do you have more space partitioned anywhere else on that machine? Could you move your mail store?

What about putting the MTA in verbose mode? I can't remember exactly where it's at in 2000 but I think it's in the properties of the server in the System Manager. On the diagnostic logging tab maybe?? Get yourself some more info on what the hell's goin on in there.

Are there any events in the error logs already that help you?

 

[peterpark]

I'd say you deleted something you shouldn't have. If your Exchange transaction logs are filling up the space on your server, then you need to do a full backup of the server to clear the log files.

To solve your internal mail problem, you could try reapplying the Exchange 2000 service pack to see if it replaces any deleted files.

 

[wdoellefeld]

Please post the complete error from the log if you can.

Anything been done with IIS lately? uninstall, etc? If so you need to run SMTPREINSTALL.EXE. It's in the support/utils/i386 directory.

Without seeing the whole error it makes it more difficult to help. Is it possible an exchange custom recipient was deleted and then someone tried to send an email to that account BEFORE the global address list was recreated?



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[JimPletcher]

Thanks guys, but I gave up and did a complete reinstall to a clean (bigger)hard drive. Also found that the tape drive died a few days before the crash. When it rains, it pours!

To answer your questions though:

Nothing was done to IIS.

Doubtful that I deleted something that I shouldn't have - just trash that should never be on a server anyway (MS Office, old files in ClientApps, etc.)

The error message originally posed is the actual (cut & paste) message - only user names have been removed, and an obvious editing typo.

No recipients deleted. Just the crash

Thanks anyway, I appreciate the help. I couldn't respond earlier because I was busy rebuilding the server.