XFOR: PCMTA Service Stops When Message Sent with Date 00
Article ID: 170137
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q170137
SYMPTOMS
When a message arriving from the Internet Mail Service with a date of 1900
or a 2-digit date of 00 is bound for a user on MS Mail connected via the
Microsoft Mail Connector, the PCMTA may stop without error. The message
remains in the PCMTA queue. If you try to restart the PCMTA, you will
receive the following error message:
Could not start the <msmail connector service name> on <server>.
Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.
The service will not start until the message is deleted or returned from
the PCMTA queue.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server
version 5.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service
Pack for Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0. For information on
obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbusage KB170137