Hi, We are running Windows 2003 server SP1 with ISA 2004 SP2 as our edge firewall, this is also running IIS6/SMTP as a relay, which then sends email to our internal mail server, this is running Windows 2003 Server SP1 & Exchange 2003 SP2. Yesterday I placed an order for some memory with ...more >>

In my SMTP setup, I have a Local (Default) which is the machine name. And I have a Local (alias) which is the domain.com name I use as my "send from" address. Mail is staying in the queue. Any thoughts as to how I should setup SMTP and/or my DNS to support sending mail out with the originating...more >>

My Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (on W2K3 Server SP1) is working fine. However, I had to remove/reinstall IIS 6.0 after an issue withOWA. And now, I have my event log populated with this warning every 15 minutes: ---------- Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeMU Event Category: General ...more >>

Hi! I'm using a POP3 service and SMTP Service of Windows 2003 server to = setup a small Mail Server Enviroment. In my "Default SMTP Virtual Server" -> Properties -> Access -> = Authentication I need to allow "Anonymous Acces". If I don't do that, = people can't send me mail's. My question i...more >>

Hi, I am developing a email sending management system, I need monitor if email seond out sucessful, if user receive it and if they read it. How can I implement those functions? I read you can send email to remote SMTP, is it good or bad? why? thanks! ...more >>

Hello, is there a way to force IIS SMTP service to use a particular SMTP server for an external domain that isn't the one listed as MX record? For example, let's say that I need to send a mail to a recipient at 'domain.com', that has 'mail.domain.com' (1.2.3.4) listed as MX record: is there a ...more >>

prob: i can send mail but i cant recieve mail! smtp & pop wiondows 2003 auth user can relay when i use outlook to test, it addeds the test mail to my inbox, so that works, but i still cant recieve any other mail to that inbox... any other test i can do? any links that can help?...more >>

I have a win2003 server configured to deliver mail addressed to our domain to an Exchange 2003 server. All other email goes out to the rest of the world. Everything works fine but at least once a day (or more) mail destined for Exchange backs up in the queue. Mail to the rest of the world i...more >>

Hi, I'm setting up a W2K3 web server that will also send out emails using the IIS SMTP. I was testing the SMTP using TELNET in the server and here's the message I got: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 220 Daedalus Microsoft ES...more >>

We have several functions which could use a nice, easy command-line e-mail tool that would relay a short e-mail through the IIS SMTP server. For instance- we run a script nightly to move some files off the server. In UNIX-land, we would finish with "mailx -s "it's finished" recipient@doma...more >>

My SMTP server has stopped generating badmail files. I have moved the badmail folder to a different directory and even tried to create a new SMTP server but still I get no badmails. Sending the mails themselves is working fine and I am getting Bounce Back reports to the "From" address. Un...more >>

Hi all, I need to install a win2003 Web Edition + SMTP for relaying an huge mailing list outbound. Can you tell me which type of performance will I receive from a Xeon 3Ghz , 2 GB RAm and SCSI disks? Is there a software (free) for monitoring the performance? thanks, a ...more >>

Hi, I'm getting this error from my Web server running Win2003. Message delivery to the host 'XXX.XXX.XX.XXX' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'aol.com' for the following reason: The semaphore timeout period has expired. The SMTP queue is jammed with outgoing mails. The SM...more >>

Hi, Whenever I have Server 2003 running with the built in mail server, and oddly enough,certain attachments simply don't work. For example, an email with a JPEG will work, but an email with a PDF or DWG will never even make it to my inbox. Suffice it to say, this is annoying. I can't find a...more >>

Hi, Whenever I have Server 2003 running with the built in mail server, and oddly enough,certain attachments simply don't work. For example, an email with a JPEG will work, but an email with a PDF or DWG will never even make it to my inbox. Suffice it to say, this is annoying. I can't find ...more >>

I am getting ready for another Hurricane season in south Louisiana and would like to use the smtp service on windows 2k3 as a backup to my exchange server. I have purchased a new server and have it stored in a co-lo. Can someone explain (in detail or via a KB/white paper) how to set the smtp...more >>

After I contact my ISP, we have done something on reverse dns but I still have no luck to send email to hotmail.com, videotron.ca, and the sympatico.ca, etc. It is rejected by them oftern. This is the error message when I used SMTPDIAG to diagnose the problem. Error: Expected "250". Serv...more >>

Hi, I am not able to send out emails through a windows service using the System.Web.Mail namespace. When I use smtpauthenticate = 1 or 2, I get an exception {"The message could not be sent to the SMTP server. The transport error code was 0x80040217. The server response was not available\r\n" ...more >>

We have had a problem for the past week with sending emails to hotmail and msn email address mainly. We have fixed DNS problems and rebooted the Exchange 2003 server (v6.5.6944.0) and as of Friday afternoon, the messages went through. Now they are stuck again. I have a feeling that when...more >>

I have run into a problem with my ISP's SMTP server in that they have started to do content filtering on *outgoing* email! They actually block all email going out that contain attached files of type .exe ..com .vbs, .pif, .scr .bat .cmd .com .mim .b64 .bhx .hqx .xxe .uu .uue And it does not ma...more >>

Hello, I've a Pop3 service using Active Directory authentication working properly with all the account I created manually with POP3 Service console. Now I would like to create some mailbox for already existing account (e.g. Administrator); if I create the mailbox without creating the user ...more >>