On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:26:31 -0700, "Brent Gardner"
[quoted text, click to view] <bgardner@iprocorp.com> wrote:
>Thanks for your reply. While I don't doubt your knowledge or experience I'd
>still like to get a strait answer from the people who make this software but
>don't document it.
Then you probably wnat to call or email them directly, not post in a
newsgroup that may or may not be monitored by the programmers.
[quoted text, click to view] >I certainly agree that the IIS SMTP server is not sophistocated, but isn't
>it the same smtpd that Exchange uses?
Sure. Except that Exchange handles the email addressing and
mailboxes.
[quoted text, click to view] >We have a web server that hosts some forms that generate email messages via
>CDONTS. The messages are sent via the IIS SMTP service. What would be a
>better smtpd that would not cost us any extra in licensing?
Microsoft's works fine for that. Your issue was changing the
postmaster return address, which depends on the SMTP installation
pulling the actual system name when the message is sent. The
postmaster account is from the system sending the message in
Microsoft's SMTP, and other than changing system names and domains you
can't easily affect that. In many other SMTP products you can change
the addressing as you see fit.
If you're looking for a *free* SMTP try Mercury Mail from pmail.com,
or Sendmail, both of which include POP which you don't get on W2K.
Jeff
[quoted text, click to view] >Thanks.
>
>Brent Gardner
>Network Administrator
>IPRO Tech, Inc.
>
>"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
>news:4179c1d7.549266263@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:31:07 -0700, "Brent Gardner"
>> <bgardner@iprocorp.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I have seen this question asked several times in this and other groups
>but
>> >never answered. Will somebody at Microsoft please authoritatively
>answer?
>> >
>> >How does one change the 'from' address of the postmaster?
>> >
>> >When an NDR or other system message is issued it is addressed from
>> >postmaster@<MachineName> or postmaster@<MachineName>.<DomainName>
>> >
>> >How does one change this to postmaster@<ArbitraryFQDN>?
>> >
>> >Changing the address NDRs are addressed TO is trivial and I am not
>> >interested in this information.
>> >
>> >We're running Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0, no Exchange.
>>
>> In IIS's SMTP you don't. It's not that sophisticated. Other SMTP
>> severs provide more configurability to change the postmaster account.
>>
>> Jeff
>
