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XCON: MTA Error ID 251

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This article was previously published under Q140945

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Symptoms

The Microsoft Exchange Message Transfer Agent (MTA) crashes with:
Event ID 251
A fatal internal MTA error occurred. Entity control block reassigned because of a configuration error.

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Cause

This Event Id is incorrectly categorized as fatal.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 U.S. Service Pack 2. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
S E R V P A C K

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Keywords: KB140945, kbusage

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Article Info
Article ID : 140945
Revision : 6
Created on : 10/28/2006
Published on : 10/28/2006
Exists online : False
Views : 415