Bruce

I am pretty much in the same boat I have setup a test reporting
services instance on a Windows 2003 box. I now want to setup the
WIndows SMTP server and make reporting services send emails to the
SMTP server running on Windows.

Your help would be highly appreciated if you can specify the steps in
setting up Windows 2003 SMTP server and making reporting services talk
to it.

Thanks

I have not setup the SMTP server. I use Reporting Services ability to be a
client and have it send to an existing SMTP server. There should be no
difference with the setup for Reporting Services, it just needs a SMTP
server, regardless of where it is. So what you need to know is how to
install and setup Windows SMTP server. Two different things, Report Services
SMTP client support and SMTP server. One option once you have the SMTP
server working is you can have RS deposite the report in a directory that
then the SMTP server picks up and emails or you can have it send the report
to the SMTP server which then forwards it on its way. For SMTP Server help I
would check out a Windows 2003 newsgroup.


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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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