XCON: Event ID: 246 An Internal MTA Error Has Occurred
Article ID: 168536
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q168536
SUMMARY
When you send a mail message from Microsoft Mail to a Microsoft Exchange
Server distribution list (DL), you may see the following error message:
EventID: 246
Source: MSExchangeMTA
Type: Error
Category: Internal Processing
An internal MTA error occurred. An attempt has been made to read beyond
the end of an object. Attribute ID: 30. Object at fault: 060000NN.
Offset reached: 1. Contact Microsoft Product Support Services. [MTA
DISP:FANOUT 12 223] (14)
The referenced object in the error is not found in the Mtadata directory.
The referenced object may vary but the attribute ID and offset are the same
in most cases.
CAUSE
The error occurs when the message transfer agent (MTA) looks on the message
for an attribute called Private Extensions. The MS Mail Interchange (MSMI)
does not create messages with this attribute, because it did not used to
exist. The MTA sees the value of this attribute has a length of 0 and so it
records the error 246.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server
version 5.0.
This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the
following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
Keywords: kbbug kbusage KB168536