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ok, I figured it out. It was the Antigent software that was holding all email in its queue. Even though, I already disabled it 2 months ago, its services were still running after I rebooted the server. After removing Antigent completely, all emails starts coming thru.<br />
Alanhardisty, thanks for your response. you put me in a correct direction.<br />
Thanks,<br />

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ok, I figured it out. It was the Antigent software that was holding all email in its queue. Even though, I already disabled it 2 months ago, its services were still running after I rebooted the server. After removing Antigent completely, all emails starts coming thru.
Alanhardisty, thanks for your response. you put me in a correct direction.
Thanks,


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No worries - glad I was able to help you sort out the problem.
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No worries - glad I was able to help you sort out the problem.

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I'm having a serious problem with our email. Somehow, it got stuck in &quot;Messages awaiting directory lookup&quot; folder. After couple hours, everything went away by itself. But I still don't receive all of email, just some of them. It looks like the emails sits in that queue and then disappear. Even when i send email within our domain, there's still about 30 minutes delay. I looked at Microsoft support site, but it doesn't apply to my situation:<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884996" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884996</a><br />
Last week, I ran &quot;Compress&quot; disk on one of my hard drive which stores all the exchange logs (the reason I did that was because it was running out of space).<br />
I see a couple of error in Event Viewer like MSExchangeTransport event ID 6006, 6008, 6010<br />
Can someone help please?<br />
Thanks,
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I'm having a serious problem with our email. Somehow, it got stuck in "Messages awaiting directory lookup" folder. After couple hours, everything went away by itself. But I still don't receive all of email, just some of them. It looks like the emails sits in that queue and then disappear. Even when i send email within our domain, there's still about 30 minutes delay. I looked at Microsoft support site, but it doesn't apply to my situation:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884996
Last week, I ran "Compress" disk on one of my hard drive which stores all the exchange logs (the reason I did that was because it was running out of space).
I see a couple of error in Event Viewer like MSExchangeTransport event ID 6006, 6008, 6010
Can someone help please?
Thanks,

Exchange 2003 email delay problem

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.

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Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.