Queue Viewer is a utility in Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 that
allows you to maintain and administer your organization's messaging
queues, as well as the messages contained
within those queues. Queue Viewer is available on all SMTP virtual
servers, X.400 objects, and all installed Microsoft Exchange
Connectors for Novell GroupWise, Lotus Notes, and Lotus
cc:Mail.
Queue Viewer is accessed through Queues in System
Manager. Expanding Queues reveals one or more system queues, which are default
queues specific to the protocol transporting the messages (SMTP,
X.400, or MAPI). The system queues are always visible.
Also visible in Queues are the link queues, visible only if the SMTP
virtual server, X.400 object, or connector is currently holding or
sending messages to another server. Link queues contain outbound
messages heading for the same next-destination server.
For general background information on Queue Viewer, see Concepts.
For information on using Queue Viewer to perform a specific
task, see How To.
It's possible there aren't currently any
messages in the queue. For example, even though system queues are always visible, in
most cases they contain messages only when there is a problem in
your messaging system. Also, remember you must first enumerate messages in order to
see them. By default, messages are not enumerated.
Be sure to first click the queue to highlight
it, and then you can right-click it for the menu. This is a design
characteristic of Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
Create a custom filter to find messages with a
"number of delivery failures" greater than zero. You can also
create a filter to find the oldest messages in the queue.
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