I have a 2003 Web Edition Server that acts as a SMTP email server using IIS. It has one domain setup on it (domain.local), setup on our internal network behind a firewall. All email goes out ok. There is a MX record for domain.com that points at a hosting company. This is where we pick up o...more >>

Hi; Every 3 or 4 days suddenly all mail gets stuck in the queue. It appears to be just mail to our domain. bouncing IIS does not fix it. But if I reboot the server, the mail all gets sent. Any ideas? thanks - dave david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.W...more >>

Presently I have setup an NNTP server on my Exchange Serer, It work great for local users. I can make my groups etc. and my exchange users can post and read articles. I would now like to pull in external news feed from a paid account that I have. I called and they said that would be perfe...more >>

I have setup a NNTP server with the following groups: foo.test foo.windows If anyone send a mail to foo.test@bar, I want it be posted to group foo.test automatically. Can anyone help me? Thanks. -- Regards, William ZHANG ...more >>

Hello i have a very strange behavior found in Windows 2003 IIS SMTP service (CDOSYS) I'm mailing html mails with the CDOSYS object from an ASP page. Whenever there is a period (.) at position 174 of a line in a html message, the mail server breaks the mail and sends out a very crippeled ...more >>

Hi, I had a strange problem with IIS SMTP attempting to send mail to the 'A' record of a domain rather than the MX. SMTP protocol (rfc 2821) states that "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a preference of...more >>

We need help on an issue of sending out duplicate emails. We use “CDONTS’ to send mail out in an ASP web application and we use MS Outlook 2003 as well. Sometime it sends duplicate mails. When it happens, the two duplicated mails are sent very close, within 0.5 second. It does not depen...more >>

I have 3 Windows 2003 servers, all running IIS6 - 2 of them have had the SMTP service running for a while, and I am installing it on the 3rd one right now. On this new server, I am having trouble with an ASP application trying to send mail, so I was looking at the permissions under the securi...more >>

Hi; I called PSS and got this fixed - but I don't know why this is necessary. I had to add a second domain to the SMTP server, one named windward.net (name of our domain). I then set it to forward all mail to smart host [123.123.123.123] (fake IP - showing that the [] is needed). As to ...more >>

Hi Can someone please advice me on where can I find documentation that can assist with configuring of NNTP. I would like to be able to import or list newsgroups that users can access. Thanx Sulaiman...more >>

Hi; Reposting to smtp_nntp because the post never showed up here. I don't know if this is a IIS_SMTP or a SBS_Exchange issue so I am posting to both. Here is my network setup: DSL Modem -> Switch 1 -> IIS & SMTP server, DNS server -> firewall/NAT ...more >>

Hi; I don't know if this is a IIS_SMTP or a SBS_Exchange issue so I am posting to both. Here is my network setup: DSL Modem -> Switch 1 -> IIS & SMTP server, DNS server -> firewall/NAT -> switch 2 -> SBS/Exchange server From the IIS/SMTP server I...more >>

Hi all, we have a Windows 2000 Pro machine that resides on the same local network as our Exchange server. It has a bunch of software programs running that control and connect our phone and voice mail systems. One of the software systems has the ability to send email notifications whenever a new ...more >>

Hi; All the messages I create are stuck in the Queue. The have a good to address but they aren't going. Any idea what to check? thanks - dave david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com...more >>

Hi; I want to set up the IIS SMTP server so it sends mail that my ASP app running on IIS generates. So it: Should not receive email. Should not accept email from any other machine (localhost only). How should I configure it? I am worried I will not set something and my system will beco...more >>

Hi; Any suggestion as to how to best test it? thanks - dave david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com...more >>

Hello, I got a retuned mail from one of the out going mail. <553 Relay restriction, by one of following check: SMTP Authorization, relayres.ini, switches.ini.> Could anyone tell what is this message mean? Thanks....more >>

Hello, Can someone provide an example on how to actually use the LDAP feature of Windows 2003 SMTP (No Excange). You can supposadly use this to expand address lists. Can this be used with ADAM? Another related question I have is: Can you reject messages at the Protocol Level (Return a 55...more >>

[I apologize for the x-post...I've moved this over from microsoft.public.inetserver.iis] at the suggestion of the first respondent... > Hi All: > > > > I have a shared IIS5 webserver on which I've set up a new smtp service > > on > > it's own IP, for a website that's also on the same IP....more >>

any product recommendations for using a pure web based client for smtp/pop iis ?...more >>

Hello What's the performance impact of running a .NET smtp sink? Is is much slower compared to delphi and/or c++? Thanks Marco ...more >>

I am setting up a notification Service Server. I will be using my ISPs SMTP. My ISP requires authentication. I was told that I can use the SMTP server that comes with the IIS as a relay, and can set the required authentication or encryption up on this server. Does anyone happen to know ...more >>

Hello, I am using Windows Small Business Server 2003 as a web server, however, I also need basic POP3 support. Unfortunately MS has taken the POP3 service out of this version of Win server. I know that Exchange is available, but I don't need that behemoth since this is not a LAN based s...more >>

I'm clueless. The scenario described below happened to me last year twice on a W2000 box, now the same thing within one week on a W2k3 box. IIS SMTP is configured to send out mails from localhost only, coming from a web application. This has worked for 2 years and now all of a sudden it fai...more >>

I have a web server which using SMTP feature to allow send email, can i configure my web SMTP to point to a Exchange to send out the mail ?...more >>

Hi all, I have a domain network and am having an issue sending out email via the smtp server. If I use OE on the actual SMTP Server itself then the email goes through fine. If a client on another server in the network tries to send it, I get the following NDR:- From: postmaster@DC1.apponedc...more >>

I use Smtp virtual server with Exchange 2003 Server How can i relay messages only from one mail domain (i.e. *@century.com) and forbid the rest of mail domain Thanks in advance ...more >>