Hello, Kristofer hello again and thanks the CDO is working nicely. However, I have found out why it will not send to MSN. or AOL. The answer is the FROM field does not show up until you open the mail. So it appears as spam. e.g. If you go to the page and email again and send it to yo...more >>

To all, I think this will be an easy one but I just need another persons perspective. Regarding SMTP and Exchange. If you have users that use only OWA(remote users), then have the exchange services (internal users), is SMTP a required protocol? If not, what services are then used for ...more >>

Is there any way to hide the control newsgroups that are created by the IIS 6 NNTP server? If I delete them, they are recreated at the next restart. If they cannot be hidden, could they be abused by an unauthorized user who discovered them? Is there a way to prevent unauthorized access whilst...more >>

Hi. Please pardon my ignorance, but here is the problem situation. Our company hosts several domains and for these there are also made e-mail inboxes. Ofcourse each domain owner wants to have info@(his-domain.com). But this is not possible, because I can only create one user named "Info". W...more >>

Hello,Kristofer and friends I do thank you for your help in my last attempt to get the CDOSYS to work via the crash course on Ilopia.com. (or any other script for that matter) I have abandoned it again for other projects that I have just finished. However I am back and I need to ask a q...more >>

I intsalled SMTP on XP Pro and configure Outlook client. The mail is accepted but sits in the ./Queue folder forever. What am I missing here? Thanks - Stefano...more >>

Hi there- On my SMTP server or firewall, I need to block all outgoing messages, and allow incoming messages. What do I do? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to send an email using CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration objects. CDO.Configuration is configured to send emails using smtp server. I'd like to imitate email list - so I want to send that email to all members (for example to three addresses). But I also want to have only one add...more >>

I have a Win 2K server running SMTP setup to relay mail for several dozen domains. 95% of this mail is getting relayed to a single server, running sendmail. On average, approx 12,000/per hour. Sendmail is configured to reject connections when the load average reaches 5. As a result, th...more >>

One of our users received this message tryin to post to our internal News server (NNTP). Any ideas on how to resolve this would be appreciated. Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Re: subject matter goes here', Account: 'server name', Server: 'server name', Protocol: NNTP, Se...more >>

I've setup a the SMTP service under IIS but when I tried to do the outbound email testing. I receive the "550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for aaa@ffg.com" error. Anyone can tell me is this error related to the SMTP server itself or the SMTP service??...more >>

Hey all, Is there a way i can manage the outband traffic bandwidth of an smtp server(Not Exchange Server) so when we deliver 20,000 mails of 100KB each it wont block our 1 MB Upload bandwidth? Is it possible to control it without expensive hardware and without messing with Qos? Thanks v...more >>

We currently have three SMTP Servers in our network, each server serving it's own websites/applications. A strange hop of email is occuring within the servers, which i cannot find the source of. Assume Server A sends out an email to an undeliverable domain. For whatever reason, the return ...more >>

Hi, We have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack=20 3 and IIS 5. We have hosted an application which sends=20 mail through IIS's SMTP service. Now, whenever I try=20 sending mail to an external domain through the=20 application, the mail stays in the Queue folder and does=20 not ...more >>

Hi All, We are using the IIS SMTP Server on a Windows 2003 box to send out emails from our ASP application. For some email domains, I noticed the following errors in the event log. Can anybody give me an idea on how these errors happen and how to resolve them. Please note that these happen onl...more >>

IIS Default SMTP Vir. Srv. Not starting I have a Win2k Server machine that is used as a web server. It does not allow me to send email because the Default SMTP Vir. Srv. service will not start. When I attempt to start it, it will say: The service did not respond to the start or control ...more >>

I have a windows server with SMTP set up to relay several hundred domains to a single linux email server. The windows server receives around 2000 messages per hour - but only delivers about 50 messages per hour. The queue keeps growing by close to 1500 messages per hour! Its been about ...more >>

Hello, Running IIS 6, using smtp services as a spamgateway. Any bounces etc come in the form of postmaster@machinename. How can I change this to a FQDN? Thanks! CB ...more >>

Using Exchange manager wizard I setup SMTP server for mail. Client connecting can receive mail but not send to smtp server. Error is that can not relay but relay is setup for the users i wish to allow rely. Can anyone assist me in this configuration. SMTP no longer is in IIS manager aft...more >>

I also posted this in the Exchange Server 2003 Setup newsgroup, but I wanted to get a good consensus, so I'm posting here too: On my network I have 1 PDC w/ a few other services running such as Software Update Services and Symantec Antivirus Corp. I also have a Secondary DC that runs a re...more >>

This doesn't make much sense to me.... Is it not possible to set my smtp service up so that it requires authentication, and yet still be able to receive emails from the outside world? If it's not possible that really makes for a hard decision. Do I want to leave my email server open for an...more >>

Does anybody know how to set the retries, expiration, and delay so that a message is retried once and if it fails it deletes and generates an ndr within an hour? (I realize that the new ndr will follow the same rules)...more >>

Ok, I finally got everything set up just how I want it... except the authentication. It is requiring me to authenticate before sending mail both outside of my network and inside of my network. I don't want to require authentication inside my network though. How can I fix this? I have only ...more >>

On 8/5/2004 I switched all of the MX Records for all of our domains to point to our new SMTP Server. I've seen the Size of the Log go from 2.5megs a day down to 64K a day. So I know that I got most of them. Though there are still about 70 connections a day on the server. We have about 50...more >>

My website runs under IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003. A user tried to send email using one of my web forms, and received an error from the CGI program which would occur only if the environment string HTTP_REFERER passed to the program was blank. He is using IE 6 under Win XP, same as me, and the...more >>

From outside the network I can send to both local network email addresses and external email addresses. From inside the network though I can only send to external email addresses. When I try to send to an internal email address I get the following in my badmail folder: Unable to deliver t...more >>

I keep getting event 4007 warnings from the smtpsvc. I get about 20 or so a day. Here is an example of one of the errors: "Message delivery to the host '209.142.136.72' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'freechal.com' for the following reaons: An SMTP protocol error occurred. ...more >>

Hello Joe here, I am not exactly sure why? But for some reason I cannot get the CDO to send mail as per tutorial on ilopia.com. (Kristofer I hope you see this). 1. I have server 2003 2. SMTP is installed 3. Have different mail server thatn MS 4. not sure how to save the code in the tut...more >>

We are trying to get IIS up and runing on a Win 2003 server that is hosted at a third party, and are not having much luck. 1. We ave verified that the MX record is correct. 2. We have set up several mailboxes, but only one seems to receive mail. 3. Test mails sent to the other mailboxes ge...more >>

We currently have our SMTP Service set to only relay for qualified IP Address (localhost 127.0.0.1) and another machine on the internal network. However after reviewing the SMTP Logs, it appears that other computers from the internet are attempting to use the SMTP Server to relay messages. I g...more >>

An IIS SMTP server with IP 1.2.3.4 How to configure IIS to receive mail sent to username@[1.2.3.4] ? Now my server will appear "550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for postmaster@[1.2.3.4]" because [1.2.3.4] is no a local or remote domain. In Exchange Server I can add a custom domain, but I don't find t...more >>

Hi All I have asp and asp.net installed on my server. The ASP sends mail fine but the asp.net gives me the error below. I can telnet with no problems to the server also. I been searching everywhere for help on this issue im getting this error Message delivery to the remot...more >>

Hi, I have an SMTP Server setup and I want it to relay only for localhost (with anonymous authentication). This does work perfectly, but the problem I have is that it won't work for local domains. Whenever I send an email to a remote domain, it works, when I send a mail to a local domain I re...more >>

Platform: IIS 6 I have already installed IIS (WWW and SMTP) on my server. What I want to do is either move \inetpub to a different drive or uninstall IIS and be able to specify the drive the INETPUB is located on. What is the fastest and how do I accomplish? Thanks. ...more >>

We are running IIS6 on WIN2K3 Standard Server and when we try to start the SMTP service the following error occurs: "Could not start SMTP service on Local Computer. Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified." The properties of the service show that the path is C:\Windows\system3...more >>

Hello. I have a ASP script that uses CDONTS mail components to send emails. My problme is that all outgoing emails are sent to queue folder .. i am running smtp on win 2k server , with iis 5. port is set to 25. network card has static ip address.( ip address assigned by routher ex: 192.168........more >>

A while back, I posted an inquiry about sending mail that disappears or is routed to bulk/spam folders. I never got a reply to it. I also saw quite a few posts about issues with Exchange plopping messages in the turf folder or killing them off entirely. I did a little experimenting and came up...more >>

Hi all There seem to be a problem when i attempt to add attachment from the client machine to the mail message sent from the web aspx server application. I am using dot net and i expect security issues to block attempts from aspx code to access the file system on client machine but not sure ho...more >>

It doesn't seem that my first message went through so trying again... 1. I want to make sure I have prevented open relaying. I am using encrypted file access for my POP3 server. In the SMTP settings, under Access I have selected "Anonymous" and "Integrated Windows" authentication types. U...more >>

1. I want to make sure that my configuration prevents open relay. I have the POP3 server set up to use Encrypted file passwords. Access: "Anonymous access" and "Integrated auth." options are selected. Relay: "Only in the list" (and I have nothing in the list) and "Allow authenticated user...more >>

IIS 6.0 Messages pile up in the queue and never go to their destination. I have another web server configured the same and it works. Any thoughts?...more >>

I recently installed a fresh copy of W2K3 which will host one of our websites. The site is currently on IIS 5. Among other thigs the current IIS 5 emails me every time there is an error in the funtionality of the pages via its own SMTP Engine. Everything works just fine in the new site w...more >>

Hi Is there a limitation regarding the type of files that can be attached?? TIA Rea ...more >>

Hi eb Are there any other risks than spam, when not applying authentication to the smtp service?? I want to prevent the overhead of username & password maintanence. Cheers Rea Rea ...more >>

Hello, I have a web site running fine on IIS 4 and one page uses the following line of code to start an email message: Set objMail=Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") When I transfer the site to an IIS 6 system on 2003 Web Server I get the following error: Server.CreateObject Faile...more >>

Hi all My intranet aspx application, needs to send email notifications. I understand there are 2 options for servicing emails in this case: 1) iis smtp service. 2)proprietary email relay server like the company's exchange server. I need to serve only a dozen intranet users. I am not sure wha...more >>

Using WinSvr2003, I can't sent emails to anyone at aol.com, bigpond.net.au, netscape.net, address.com, among others. This is the message I receive: Reporting-MTA: dns;[myserver] Received-From-MTA: dns;winxp Arrival-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:02:33 -0600 Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email@addres...more >>

No error message, no incomming email problem...more >>