Hello, I have a fresh installation on WS03 SP1 with several hotfixes... It's a virtual machine running on VMWare. Exchange 2003 Standard. I have installed several different times in different ways, on a DC, on a member server, with two different installation disks. Every time, messages from one user can not be delivered to another user on the same database. I notice the MTA will not start. The app event log has the following... (in sequential order). The MTA logging level is maximum for all objects. There are no performance counters running. The Virtual machine has 1 GB of memory and a 2 GB page file. Any ideas? Event Type:WarningEvent Source:MSExchangeMTAEvent Category:Field Engineering Event ID:2207Date:10/26/2007Time:11:30:42 AMUser:N/AComputer:AQSERVER4Description:The MTA database recovery operation has completed successfully. Recovery details can be found in the file: C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mtadata\.\MTACHECK.OUT\MTACHECK.LOG. [DB Server MAIN BASE 1 67] (14) For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Event Type:ErrorEvent Source:MSExchangeMTAEvent Category:Field Engineering Event ID:9405Date:10/26/2007Time:11:30:42 AMUser:N/AComputer:AQSERVER4Description:An unexpected error has occurred which may cause the MTA to terminate. Error: Init Routing API returned error -1073478776. [BASE MAIN BASE 1] (16) For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Event Type:ErrorEvent Source:MSExchangeMTAEvent Category:Directory Access Event ID:137Date:10/26/2007Time:11:30:42 AMUser:N/AComputer:AQSERVER4Description:A fatal directory error occurred. Change to the maximum logging level for more details. [MTA MAIN BASE 1 12] (16) For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Event Type:WarningEvent Source:MSExchangeMTAEvent Category:Resource Event ID:9406Date:10/26/2007Time:11:30:42 AMUser:N/AComputer:AQSERVER4Description:There is not enough Performance Monitor memory to display the MTA Connections information. Stop attached Performance Monitors and re-start the MTA. [BASE MAIN BASE 1] (14) For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

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I tried 840469, no change. no local delivery and the MTA will not start.