Hi, For web development purposes, I've installed SMTP service on my Windows 2000 Pro workstation. I configured it to the best of my knowledge (read 'none') and then tried it by dropping an RFC822 conformant message into the Pickup folder. Here's the message itself (this post uses fake domains...more >>

I have the Exchange tools installed on one Win2k server (SP4) but not Exchange itself. I use the tools to remotely administer another machine that does have Exchange installed. However, because the tools are installed I can't administer SMTP on this machine. Apparently merely installing the tool...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm having a bit of a problem at one of our clients sites. When an email is sent to a site where the lowest cost MX preference is down, Exchange will not try to send the message to the next lowest cost MX preference (e.g. mail1.acme.net MX preference = 5, mail2.acme.net MX...more >>

I am having some trouble sending email on a Win2K Server. When it is configured to use a smarthost, it works fine. However, when I try and send messages from the server itself the mail just sites in the queue. Using NSLOOKUP I can find all MX records for all the domains in the emails. [exa...more >>

lHello, I am trying to set up a SMTP server in Windows server 2000. I already installed the SMTP virtual server and now I am trying to find the pop3 protocol to go along with it. Any suggestions? I cannot believe that win2k server includes SMTP but does not include POP3. Is there one I can do...more >>

Hi there, Hope someone can help me on this... Small Business Server 2000 - Exchange 2000 Exchange Virtual Server working fine, however I need to install 3rd Party AntiSpam product. New application requires changes to Local Domains to be made to the IIS5 SMTP Snap In. This is not visible in ...more >>

Hello, A few months ago I was practicing sending an email from an smtp virtual server running on a win2k server with iis5.0 running. I was practicing using aspx. This was working. Then I put it down for a while, but now I want to use it again and I keep getting this error message in th...more >>

Hi All, We've got a problem with SBS2000, specifically with Exchange. We migrated our server over the weekend to a new box, and installed everything ok - configured SMTP/POP3 etc. as expected, but accidently forgot to update the E-Mail Address Policy to deliver SMTP e-mail correctly to o...more >>

We have an IIS 5 server sending ecommerce transaction email responses straight out through the IIS SMTP virtual server. We do not have the ability to pass these messages through a registered domain or a registered server name. How can we avoid being classified as a SPAM source? Is a revers...more >>

I have a multihomed colo server (Windows 2003 Standard) that's hosting mail, web, and some other services. 5 domain names are associated with this server. 4 domains receive mail on one IP address using an e-mail proxy (http://www.sssolutions.net/ew/) and a 3rd-party mail server (not relevant...more >>

Hi There! How can I configure IIS so that I can send/receive email using myemail@mydomain.com? Any pointers to tutorials or docs explaining how will be greatly appreciated!! Don ...more >>

I setup the Microsoft NNTP server on Windows 2000 to use SSL. I then tried to connect to the server using outlook express 6 on the same subnet. I get the following error when I try to download the list of newsgroups: TCP/IP connection unexpectedly terminated by server Configuration: ...more >>

for some reason I dont see my SMTP virtual servr in IIS (Windows 2000 IIS 5.0), I already removed and reinstalled SMTP, print and file sharing is installed, removing and reinstalling print and file sharing didnt do anything, I registered the DLL, nothing, the question is now, how can I change th...more >>

I'm using ASP.NET to send emails from mydomain.com. It works fine on a W2K server where mydomain.com has a website and a DNS record on the server. But now, I put the same code on a second/new W2K server and I get the "unable to relay for whatever@mydomain.com" error! I am not trying to send...more >>

Here's the scenario: Windows 2003/IIS6. NNTP service appears to be running just fine, however IIS Manager shows that the Default NNTP Virtual Server is stopped. Trying to start it returns the following error: NNTP Configuration The service has returned a service-specific error code. Ch...more >>

Any body know of a NNTP client that supports moderating functions. The newsgroups are on IIS5 and IIS6. Cheers RajiA ...more >>

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the SMTP server on a W2K3 server and now the admin is gone from the IIS administration tool. How do I get it back? Thanks....more >>

In the last week (since Jul 14), I've been having=20 problems sending email from our web servers running IIS 5=20 and the SMTP service. I applied the latest security=20 updates: 839645, 841872, 841873, 840315, 842526 and=20 823353. Strange I'm able to telnet but no consistent=20 smtp. I've also...more >>

Sir, I am using CDO.Message from asp script to send out emails. All the email I generated from asp script were stopped at queue folder. Any idea where should I look for the problem? I am using Windows 2003 web edition. IIS SMTP is running on port 2500. -- Kind regards Guoqi Zhen...more >>

Hi, I have found that using a website one can run any DLL which came along with windows or create a new DLL and regiser using ASP on my server. This is actually troubling me, because if some one can do that, anything could be done on a server. My Server is Windows 2000 Server. If a DLL can be...more >>

I am using the SMTP server in IIS5.0 on a Win2K server platform to sen e-mail from a web page. The e-mail is being delivered into the Pick folder, and is ending up in the Drop folder, but the e-mail is neve delivered. There are no files in any of the other folders unde mailroot. None of the ...more >>

I have windows XP, Frontpage 2002, and IIS V5.1 installed. I switched over from Cdonts to CDO per KBO 260985 and have a .asp page set up exactly as KBO 218607 states. I keep getting an error that is exactly listed in KBO 258932, which calls for registering the mswcrun.dll on my system a...more >>

Hi Is there any documentation that shows how to create moderated discussion forums with IIS 5, and how if the group is moderated to approve the post. These discussion forums will be available internally and externally by authentication. Are there any how to docs in using Exchange Server 2003 ho...more >>

I’m trying to access the newsgroup news.msdnaa.net in my outlook express and supply the necessary information like username and password and yet I got these error messages: Configuration: Account: news.msdnaa.net Server: news.msdnaa.net User name: faculty Protocol:...more >>

Hallo, is there a independent smtp server, which we can use from anywhere? independent from the provider? i.e. i have a pop-mail server allready. Thanks for helps, Deddy ...more >>

I am sending email messages from an asp page using CDONTS. I get no error, but the mail is not sent. I have looked at the \mailroot\drop folder and my messages are getting placed there. Is there a firewall port that I need to open in order to send these messages? If not a firewall issue, ...more >>

First, we understand SMTP is "supposed" to be missing from IIS6 admin when running Exchange 2003. We also tried kb555030 before we knew that. Here's the issue - we need to setup SMTP to do the following: - Allow certain internal addresses to relay without authentication - Allow external ema...more >>

I have come to a client site, and never seen this before. There must be more than a million files in the badmail directory. So many that I can't even delete the Virtual Server. It was affecting the server performance, and I am now spending a lot of time deleting files from the badmail d...more >>

Hi All, we have a Win2k3 box with SMTP Service active and running. I enabled it to relay mail through a Smart host (Exchange 2003). What happens is that, Virtual SMTP Server successfully connect to Exchange but it goes in timeout during DATA (or BDAT) verb transfer. It happens also with an...more >>

I have facing a problem in IIS SMTP Virtual Server. My application is using SMTP Virtual Server (IIS) to send out an email, however, i am trying to block any email which Email's [To] is xxxx@yahoo.com (That means i want to block the "yahoo.com" domain)in SMTP Virtual Server but i cannot fi...more >>

I am running W2K3/SMTP/POP3 for my home office and I am getting more and more attempts to relay from my server. Most of them are coming from: china9988@21cn.com address. The messages aren't being deliverered, so they being bounced back to me. How (or is there a way) to prevent it? The messa...more >>

I have been looking for a place that has full details on setting up the SMTP server from start (just after install) to finish (up and rummung complete, in and out). Any ideas? newbie David...more >>

I know that this is by far not the best setup at all, in fact this is a real crappy way of going about things but at this time I'm just trying to make due with what is allocated to me. I'm currently Running Server 2003, and my boss is wanting us to put his personal mail domain on our server becau...more >>

Hi! I'm trying to figure out why the Anonymous Access setting for the default SMTP virtual server in an Exchange 2000 Server keeps changing to the un-checked state, without direct user interaction. A client says that they ran out of space on the drive where the log files are kept. The...more >>

I am running Server 2003 with SMTP and POP3. Everything works fine, except I would like to assign multiple e-mail address to the same account. Is this possible with this configuration? ...more >>

Hi Folks, I'm currently doing some migrations to my website but in the interim I need my form mail pages to work which have been scripted using CDONTS under ASP/VBScript. I registered the cdonts.dll into my Windows 2003 Web Edition Server and now my forms take you to the confirmation page b...more >>

Hi, This is driving me nuts to say the least!!!!! I am trying to send an email from some server side ASP code and the CC field is giving me some problems. The code works fine if I have one or 2 email addresses in the field (The addresses are valid.) However if I have 4 it breaks. Now ...more >>

I SMTP relay into an exchange server. Something magical happened sometime over the holiday weekend and now I have 4,000 stupid NDR emails along with some actual valid emails sitting in my SMTP queue. I yanked all the delivery times down to 1 minute and squashed all connection timeouts to 1 minute...more >>

Same EXACT problem. Anyone have any more ideas? Thanks. Mike Frakes...more >>

Is there a limit to the number of IP addresses that can be entered in the IP Address Access Restrictions section?...more >>

When I have the IIS window open, the Default SMTP Virtual Service shows (STOPPED). I attemtp to start it and it responds with: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. Check the Windows Event Viewer for details. There is no event in windows and the ...more >>

Can I setup a catch all address for a domain? ...more >>

Are there any products for Spam and Virus filtering for the IIS SMTP Gateway that comes with Windows 2003? ...more >>

Ok peps here to story, I have a 2000 server running exchange 2000. When I set up the domain controller I follwed the guide lines for hardening a 2000 server and installed some piece of software or patch from microsoft to help close of some of the insecurities in IIS. The problem I have i...more >>

Hello All, I am working with Windows XP Pro and Internet Information Services. I want to sent mail from within a webpage (aspx). This must be possible when the smtp-server is configured correctly. I never used the SMTP-server before so my question is can someone explain to me how to configu...more >>

the exchange 2000 server is not recieving external e- mails. it is sending and recieving internal mail fine and sending external mail. for some reason it is not recieving external e-mail. the services are running... what else do i need to check? help!!...more >>

I want to send an email from the serverside of an aspx page based on data submitted by the client. I also need to attach a file to send to the recipient of the email. Testing inWindows XP/ Visual Studio .Net: Uploading the file and saving it – no problem Creating and populating the MailMessag...more >>

Hi: I tried to send email from an ASP.NET page through SMTP. But I always got the error: Server Error in '/' Application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The transport failed to connect to the server. Description: An unhandled exceptio...more >>

I will be reffering to only the access tab in smtp virtual server properties. How does access control relate to relay restrictions, if at all? If relay restriction is based purely on authentication, must authentication be enabled in access control options for people to relay? Would allowi...more >>

Hi all. I have a server with Win2k3 Server that I use for Web hosting. At the moment, I use the Win2k3 own services for the mail part, but I've noticed it's a bit limited. Now, I own a license for Exchange 2000, and I'd like to know if you suggest me to install and use it. Honestly, most of t...more >>