Did you perform an upgrade? Did you check the permission for the services account? Did you installed SP4? -----Original Message----- From: Fadi Idris [mailto:fadi.idris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 20 februarie 2002 07:44 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Cannot start Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks service http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi All, First, Sorry for the long description. I am facing the following problem on my exchange server. When any user sends an E-mail it reach outbox and stuck there. I found that Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks is not started. When I try to start it I get an error message "could not start the Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks service on local computer. The services did not return an error. This could be an internal windows error or internal service error". The strange thing is when you go to event viewer you will find event 7009 "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service to connect" and event 7000 "The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion". But System Attendant service is started and I also tried to stop is and restart it again and it restarted correctly. After those two events I receive two events. Event 7001 "The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service depends on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." This service I tried to start it manually and it started. Event 7001 "The Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks service depends on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." It does not start. I tried to apply SP2 but this did not solve the problem. You help is really appreciated. Thanks Fadi Idris ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: cristian.fuia@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')