Reinstalled SMTP now no mail goes to queues, sits in Outbox on clients

[XRJoe]

While troubleshooting another issue with one of three exchange servers, SMTP protocol was reinstalled by a domain admin (although not Exchange Admin). Since this happened no email leaves the Outbox on the clients, the Local Delivery Queue says ready but always has 0 messages.

Incoming mail to mailboxes on this server get a bounce back saying it cannot find the mailbox.

We have 2 other exchange servers (1 of which has other problems) that are not seeing this behavior.

 

[58sniper]

What do the logs say?
Are all services running?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6B-DE34-4F1C-AEBA-FED1256CAF9A&displaylang=en

Pat Richard MVP
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[XRJoe]

Yes all services were running. We have since removed SMTP again and after reinstalling and recreating the clustered resource for SMTP, it fails to start with the following event log...


Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeCluster
Event Category: Services
Event ID: 1008
Date: 2/26/2009
Time: 11:23:27 AM
User: N/A
Computer: EXMB2
Description:
SMTP Virtual Server 2: Failed to start or stop the protocol instance. Possible causes are failure to open the metabase; failure to set the start or stop command; or failure to start or stop protocol instance in a timely fashion.

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