How do we set up our IIS 5 (W2K SP4) internal web server's SMTP service to send mail successfully to our internal Exchange 2003 server? Our internal web server has ASP forms for employees to fill out (i.e. vacation). The employee's Exchange email address gets inserted into the From field,...more >>

Server running 2003 Server with SMTP installed to allow Dell OpenManage to send email alerts to our local email accounts, hosted on an Exchange 2000 server in the same domain. Outgoing messages to these local accounts remain in the queue until the OpenManage server is rebooted, when it finishe...more >>

We had a problem sending out email with our SMTP server because of a network problem. We've since fixed the problem but need to resend out all the email currently in our badmail folder. What is the best way to resend all the original emails again? The files in the bad mail folder only appe...more >>

I need details on how the SMTP server does things. I had a problem where our primary mail server was down for a service pack and another server of ours tried to send it mail and decided to send to the backup mail server b/c the primary was down but after it was back up, the server sending the...more >>

Hi, i've noticed that my Windows 2000 Srv SP4 with Exchange 2000 SP3 is really slow in sending messages. The number of messages waiting in queue is about 5360. Messages go out but very very very slow. about 1 message every 30 sec. I try to stop SMTP SVC and restart server but never happen....more >>

Dear all, I install a IIS 6 SMTP for my SMTP gateway, and them relay emails to my Exchange server. Yesterday I enable ¡§Perform reverse DNS lookup on incoming messages¡¨, but looks like some customer¡¦s email can¡¦t send to our company. I have some problem need your help: 1. ...more >>

Hello, I have a laptop that moves between work and home and whenever I move I need to update its SMTP server on the email account list. To solve this problem, I installed my local SMTP that comes with IIS. It was working fine till yesterday morning when it stops accepting email from my ...more >>

Is there a way to use the SMTP on a Windows 2000 Pro laptop to send email ? Our SPAM protection (Postini) dictates that no one use our SMTP (Exchange) server to send mail, unless they are within the domain. So someone "on the road", can get their email easily, but cannot send without using a...more >>

Hello, I have installed the email-services on my win2003 server. To configure SMTP I can do this in Internet Information Services Manager. My colleaque did the same but cannot configure SMTP within in IIS-Mananger because he has not the snap-in for SMTP. The difference between the 2 servers...more >>

Does anyone know if Windows 2000 IIS SMTP timestamps Outlook e-mails passing through it.? Thanks...more >>

I am not familiar with "Masquerade field". Would appreciate if anyone can guide me. Eg. my company internet domain is 'lala.com.au' & internal network domain is 'staff.lala.net' . What should i enter in the Masquerade field? Basically, i do not want my internal server, domain name & ip addr...more >>

Please help. Just built a stand-alone(win 2k3 enterprise)web, mail, file server at home using my Comcast broadband internet connect. FTp,& web functions work fine with access from any machine. My POP/SMTP function is accessed thru Outlook Express on my client machine. Although I can send a...more >>

I have decided to secure my OWA site using SSL. I have followd the instructions for installing certificate services, creating a server certificate and used the external domain name as the common name for the server. Having applied the certificate I can now no longer access OWA internally ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to get cdo.message working on my home development machine, however, when I send it it appears to get stuck in the queue and never actually gets sent. If I don't have a domain SMTP set (either alias or remote) then I get an error on page. But if I set these, the email j...more >>

I have an W2K IIS Box in my DMZ that accepts mail inbound for our company and also acts as a smart host to relay mail outbound. Inside we have Exchange 2000 Server. My question is whether the W2K server can be configured to not accept commands for cc or bcc when they originate from outside o...more >>

Is it possible to change the postmaster address in the outgoing NDR? John Stimpson ...more >>

Hi all, I have a SBServer. The exchange server are not sending outbound mails. I'm tested the DNS, that's working fine. I'm tried a connection with external mail servers with telnet, its working fine to. I'm tried to activate the smtp log to view the dialog between my server and externa...more >>

I use article 262168 to turn off advertising of 8 bit MIME on my IIS SMTP server. However, I would like to put another server in place of IIS SMTP for more robust functionality and reporting. I've looked at a number of SMTP servers such as Lyris and Mail Marshal and others. I can't find one...more >>

I was wondering if there is a way to poll Microsoft's POP3 Server (shipped with Windows Server 2003) for new messages...that is, I want to execute some code when the POP3 server receives new email. Cheers. ...more >>

Hello, I wrote a program, that sends emails under certain circumstances. Therefore it uses a smtp server that is specified in the programs settings. Until now this works fine even without pop before I send the new mail but I have something in my head, that normally it's necessary to receive ...more >>

What I want to do is to show always the latest post on our company NNTP and the newest email in my inbox as an activex background on my desktop. Thanks a lot Miguel...more >>

I have OWA in the DMZ but the mail server is behind the DMZ. I have no problems accessing OWA but I do have a problem see the users on my DC. The real issue is that I am trying to have users change their own password within OWA and need to know what ports I need to have open without any securi...more >>

Hello, I am using the smtp relay feature in iis to send messages. I am sending messages to this via .net and cdonts when sending outbound mails. For the most part this is working for me. I am not using a smart host and each webserver tries to send the mail directly. Unfortunately, a certain...more >>

After reading through these posts I feel I may be in over-my-head, but here goes: I'm using IIS 5.1 on Windows XP Pro, and I'm creating web pages using DreamWeaver and PHP and uploading them to my ISP. I'm able to send mail (using the PHP mail() function) once the page is uploaded to my ...more >>

I am having an issue of performance on my outbound SMTP server.. W2K IIS5 all patched up.. What I see is that when my users start sending hundreds of emails at a time the queue starts backing up, and other users cannot get thier email out in timely manner.. We are not talking about huge mes...more >>

Does anyone have any pointers on how to set the IIS SMTP service to perform Active Directory lookups for incoming mail. I want to be able to match any incoming SMTP mail to the list of users in the AD and if they are not listed the SMTP server will reject the message. Kind Regards B...more >>

I am developing a sytem using PHP and IIS. I need to send mail through this system. I am using the php mail() function. This function returns true and the email gets generated but it remains stored int the c:\inetpub\mailroot\queue folder. I tried using Outlook express to send an emai...more >>

Hi, I have IIS/SMTP on WindowsXP. I have no external domain (ie domain = localhost. I can send mail from a hotmail address to a smtp address and from a smtp address to a smtp address. However, I cannot send from a smtp address to a hotmail address. The mail goes to the root/queue dire...more >>

So here is the scenario. We have database server that is running rational Clearquest. When we generate a new ticket request it generates an email that will be sent back to the submitter and to whom ever is assigned to the ticket. The email is sent through smtp port 25. The problem is that sin...more >>

Hi, Have a little problem wondering if anyone can help. We are using a software program called LiveLink. LinkLink is on server4. LiveLink sends out notifications using IIS SMTP on server6. It sends to internal addresses just fine but when it sends to external it gets the message: Repo...more >>

Any help anyone can offer with this problem would be greatly appreciated I have a Windows 2000 server running IIS 5 with the SMTP service relaying mail to a exchange box, the reason for this is so incoming and outgoing mail can be scanned for viruses and spam. I have setup AD users to send...more >>

When a browser gives you the generic "error on page", how can one go about troubleshooting the exact problem? Someone has an Outlook Web Access site that's failing on changing calendar views, and I've found nothing referencing it in the KB articles or in the exchange group, so I thought I'd se...more >>

Is the a formula for configuring the max number of recipients for the SMTP Virtual Server. ...more >>