I'd like to send out an email to customers but with a non existing reply-to address. Does anyone know if spam filters will reject emails with invalid reply-to adress? I will have a valid from address but an invalid reply-to address. Thanks ...more >>

Is there any command we can use in scheduled task to restart the IIS SMTP server automatically without restarting Websites & FTP? I check IISreset command, but no parameter to restart SMTP only. ...more >>

We are getting a WinServer 2003 server and I need to come up with a system for handling internal-only email. We currently have Internet email hosted outside and have email clients setup to use their POP3 and SMTP servers. The new email system will need to handle internal email separately as th...more >>

I have configured a W2K standalone server to be a webserver. Everything is functioning fine but now the programmer created a CDO call to the SMTP so that the web application can send email alert to an external email addresses. IIS 5.1 has the SMTP installed and is running. How do I configur...more >>

I have tried using both CDO and CDONTS in VBScript on an ASP page to send an email (developing on Win 2000). It works when I send mail to an address outside my domain, but when I send to an address inside the my domain I get nothing - no error, and no email. My code is as follows: CDONTS: ...more >>

Hi all, Does anyon knows if it's possible to import external newsgroups on an iis nntp server ? thanks. kb ...more >>

I am having a problem getting the masquerade setting in the IIS SMTP service to work. Email sent from outlook 2000 client with mailbox hosted on exchange 2003 server. Email is routed via an smtp connector to a DMZ system running Windows 2000 Server SP4 w/ IIS 5.0 The client/internal domain...more >>

I have a private network with a few users. I want to have the W2003 server configured to relay ALL e-mail to our mail SMTP mail relay for this network. I don't want any DROP folder, as I don't want anything to be considered local. We have a POP3 server running at HQ that they need to use. ...more >>

Hi, i´ve got an Exchange2003 who receives mail via IIS-SMTP... now following happens: If i receive a Mail which contains a lot of recipients the header becomes malformed. This means that some of the recipients, subject-tag and mime-information a.e. are shown in the body of the message... An...more >>

I want our users to send mail through an ISP rather than our server but be able to collect mail from our server using POP3. How might I configure SMTP/POP3 to accomplish this? Jim Carlson ...more >>

I posted this to an Exchange newsgroup but they seem to think this is a "Developer Issue", so here it is again. Kal ********************************* I have access to two LANs each with an Exchange Server and a webserver. There is an MSDN article "Sending SMTP Mail by Port 25 Using CDOSYS". ...more >>

i am having problems getting mail delievered to one address everything else gets delieverd fine. i am running IIS6. the destination host has three MX records and MX1 went down. MX2 is still up but the smtp server wont deliever to it. i think MX3 is down also. the priority is MX1, MX2 then MX3...more >>

I have access to two LANs each with an Exchange Server and a webserver. There is an MSDN article "Sending SMTP Mail by Port 25 Using CDOSYS". I copied this code and on the first network it worked perfectly. The server that worked has an address of 10.0.0.x and the exchange server has an ad...more >>

Hello, We are getting quite a large number of "dictionary attacks" related to spam and virus email behavior. In other words, they are sending repeated emails to a list of common usernames at my domain name. These usernames do not exist. Most of this email has a forged and inaccurate sender ...more >>

Does anybody know why a pdf attachment would not display the pdf icon next to it when Outlook receives the message? I'm sending through smtp with the application-type of pdf. When it sends through my windows service it does not display the icon. If I send through my windows program it does di...more >>

A user received the following when sendning an email to an external recipient: You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For assistance, contact your system administrator. <mail2.domain-name.com #5.7.1 smtp;554 5.7.1 Message seems to be spam, rejected> The user sa...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to turn off 8 Bit MIME from IIS6.0, the OS is Windows 2003 so I cannot use MS Q262168. I think I can do it through the IIS resource kit with Metabase Explorer. Ive found the key which reports 7697601 which is default?, how do I get the 0x... number which is needed? HELP!!!...more >>

Hi, Our firewall currently forwards port 25 to a spam filter server, which then forwards it on to the gateway of our Mail server infrastructure (Exchange). We are in the process of replacing our spam filter with a new product (changing from MailMarshal to SurfControl Email Filter). The p...more >>

Good Day, I'd like to clean up the header information that is sent from my SMTP server. Belower is the received from portion of the email that is sent from my SMTP Server. Why do i get an unverified message? How can i change mycomputername to show mycomputername.domainname.com? Thanks ...more >>

Problem Overview: I have a win2k server box set up to scan incoming emails for spam using Brightmail 5.5. Once the message makes it past Brightmail it then gets forwarded via IIS 5 smtp to an Exchange 2000 server that then delivers it the users' mailbox. Ocassionally users tell me that ...more >>

I've got a regular CD of Exchange, so I could probably install it on my Server. However, I'm afraid that it should be a too complex task for me (I've not much time to follow it...) So, before moving on with Exchange, all I need is a WebMail service and a Mailing list one. Anyone knows if there ...more >>

I am using the IIS SMTP Virtual Server (IIS v.5.0) to manage emails that I am sending out from my websites. I have configured the virtual server to use our SMTP Gateway as the smart host (both are on our DMZ). Recently we started seeing messages sent from our websites queue in the QUEUE folder. ...more >>

Is it possible to have Exchange 2000 Server integrated with existing Active Directory and process mail for two domains? The existing domain name is win.company.net, using a single domain controller. The exchange server is a member of this domain, named server1.win.company.net. The excha...more >>

Hi I have created (C#) and registered (RCPT rule) OnInboundProtocol Sink which is supposed to be a sort of recipient filter. I can't force it to not add a recipient to the recipients list when the recipient email address matches a specific value (so it's not possible to execute DATA command unt...more >>

I've setup IIS SMTP Service with Reverse DNS lookup enabled. In the headers of email however, it says the RDNS has failed. However, when I use nslookup on the ip address it resolves fine?? Any ideas appreciated. CB ...more >>

Hi folks, I have a program that sends out notifications through my IIS server. It goes perfectly to every address except on. I get the following error message: Message delivery to the remote domain 'domain.com failed. The error message is 'An SMTP protocol error occurred. '. The SMTP verb ...more >>

I'm unable to get unicode in the CDOSYS subject line. Here's my code... <%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> <% Sub SendMail (sFromAddress, sToAddress, sCcAddress, sBccAddress, sSubject, sBody, boolReadReceipt, intImportance ) ' on error resume next Const cdoDispositionNotificati...more >>

Hi, I have port 25 blocked by my ISP and I want to forvard my mail to the different port and use another mail server outside (no-ip.com). As soon as I changed the port number, it stopped(smtp) and prodused this message: The service has returned a sercice-specific error code. Check the Window...more >>

Hi I am a developer and know only concepts we just got computer from hosting company and installed our site. This site sometimes needs to send emails and we (site support) need to read replies platform is w2003/iis6 and as I understand default SMTP server is the ticket now there bunch...more >>

I¡¦ve install anti-virus on my IIS with SMTP server. Sometimes when my SMTP get virus email, it will scanned by anti-virus, but I don¡¦t want like that. So can I prevent anti-virus scan my IIS SMTP email? Many thanks for your help! ...more >>

How can I in this software (W2003 SE, IIS6 SMTP) restrict relaying (forwarding mail from users to remote servers) based on sender's email adress/domain name? Why is such simple thing not possible in this software? Is there any add-on or third party software available which does this? ...more >>

I made the observation (of course the hard way) that one needs to reboot the server (2003 SE) after any little change one makes in the configuration settings (just restarting the services is not sufficient!). Otherwise SMTP and NNTP stop functioning. It took me almost a whole week to get SMTP a...more >>

Hi, Thanks in advance. I have windows 2000 server with Smarter mail (third party emailing solution). This Smartermail uses port 25 for smtp service. At the same time, I want to use IIS SMTP service so that i can use CDONTS to send mail from my ASP scripts. I configured IIS SMTP service to ...more >>

I am new to servers. I am running a network with Windows Server 2003 SE. I have a very simple form created with Dreamweaver, and I want the information from it to be sent to my e-mail. I am using a PHP script to handle the 'action' of the form (nvform.php). Thanks to these discussion groups I ...more >>

I am new to IIS... I have recently uninstalled and reinstalled SMTP on my Windows 2003 server. Many articles that I have read state that if you do this the SMTP will no longer work. Which is what is hapening to me. When my clients have a webform, on their site, that sends an email it gives ...more >>

I have Exchange server 2000 using Outlook as a mail service recently I changed the network adapter and experienced an unusual problem I can access the web and receive mail but when I atempt to send mail get the following promt (The TCP/IP connection was unexpectedly terminated by your mail se...more >>

I have installed IIS & SMTP on a W2K Workstation and would like to be able to have Outlook 2000 to send with the installed SMTP Server. Can anyone point me to information on how to set this up? ...more >>

We are using a Netscreen 5XP firewall that listens on multiple IP addresses (designated ports per IP address) and forwards them off to designated IP addresses on the internal network. One such 'policy' is for SMTP (25). This policy allows all incoming traffic to enter the network and go to a sys...more >>

My ISP blocks port 25 as most do. I need to test out some sendmail code so I need to be able to look at the email, as it gets received, to verify everything. I figure that the only way to do this is to set up one of my xp computers to run POP3 and then, somehow, specify that server when I ...more >>

I am a developer that uses EarthLink as an ISP. I have to write some sendMail functions but my ISP does not allow me to send smtp mail (probably most don't). Is there a way to test this out in my environment? Thanks, G ...more >>

Hoping this is an easy question. In W2K3Svr/IIS6 is there a setting in smtp to force/set mail format to text or html or ... Many thanks Kevin ...more >>