I went to MySupport (what a horrible site -- it totally hosed my computer for half an hour printing the two pages of this note). There are basically six points to this note: 1. One of the recipients (destination address for propagation) does not exist. --DESTINATION ADDRESS FOR PROPAGATION DOES EXIST. 2. The destination queue is not enabled for enqueue. -- QUEUES ARE STARTED 3. There is no recipient for the message at destination queue. -- 4. Message was enqueued into a multiconsumer queue without a recipient list and none of the subscription rules are satisfied. -- RECIPIENT LIST AND SUBSCRIPTION RULES EXIST. 5. The destination queue for propagation is an exception queue. -- NO 6. There is a mismatch between the payload of the source and destination queues. -- IDENTICAL My responses are in the all caps. I'm not sure that I understand the distinction between #1 and #3 so I'm not sure what to say there. #2 is especially amusing since dbms_aqadm does not have an enable_enqueue proc. In fact, what they mean is, have you run start_queue? Typical of the clarity of Oracle's documentation. Trying to find out what #3 meant, I ended up running ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS '24040 trace name context forever, level 10'; All is finally revealed. The start queue is failing because of lack of OS resources. The Thu Mar 11 08:09:19 2010 MMNL absent for 61854 secs; Foregrounds taking over MMNL absent for 61854 secs; Foregrounds taking over MMNL absent for 61854 secs; Foregrounds taking over in the alert log could have been a clue but it and the UNDELIVERABLE message are about the only hints that Oracle gives. With the trace on I see: Thu Mar 11 08:09:19 2010 Thu Mar 11 11:11:54 2010 Errors in file c:\oracle\product\10.2.0.4\admin\tsi\bdump\tsi_j004_4448.trc: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 68 bytes (Typecheck,optdef: qcopCreateOptInternal) ORA-12012: error on auto execute of job 591 ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 16396 bytes (QERHJ hash-joi,QERHJ Bit vector) ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 2 ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 123404 bytes (QERHJ hash-joi,kllcqas:kllsltba) ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_IJOB", line 49 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_JOB", line 124 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_PRVTAQIP", line 2166 ORA-06512: at line 1 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_IJOB", line 49 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_JOB", line 124 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_PRVTAQIP", line 2166 ORA-06512: at line 1 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM_SYS", line 7224 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM_SYS", line 7502 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM", line 978 ORA-06512: at line 1 Thu Mar 11 11:12:48 2010 Process startup failed, error stack: Thu Mar 11 11:12:48 2010 Errors in file c:\oracle\product\10.2.0.4\admin\tsi\bdump\tsi_psp0_716.trc: ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:CreateThread failed with status: 8 ORA-27301: OS failure message: Not enough storage is available to process this command. ORA-27302: failure occurred at: ssthrddcr AQ queuing is a bit of a memory hog. I have 2G of physical RAM and can go to 4G virtual. Anyway, now I know why it appears to be not running. It isn't. Now I have to figure how configure it to run within the OS (WIndows XP) limits. Thank you to everyone for your help.