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configure SMTP to run no localhost

Mike
6/27/2007 8:30:09 AM

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I need to configure my SMTP service on my Windows XP Pro machine. How can I
go about doing this?

Re: configure SMTP to run no localhost

Sanford Whiteman
6/27/2007 11:44:34 AM

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Microsoft has (naturally) introductory documentation, and the
application helpfile is useful, if not complete.

Without knowing what problems you've encountered, it's impossible to
offer help. IIS SMTP can be an extremely complex application, or a
simple one, depending on what you're trying to do.

What is your familiarity with SMTP and DNS in general? You shouldn't
be putting an SMTP server on the public Net without some (some would
say much) knowledge of the security, privacy, and reliability concerns
associated with the underlying standards.

And be sure to search the old messages in this ng as you do develop
follow-up questions.

--Sandy

Re: configure SMTP to run no localhost

Mike
6/27/2007 1:14:03 PM

Its on my own pc, in my own network thats not even hooked up to the
internet. So being on a public network isn't happening on this box.

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Re: configure SMTP to run no localhost

Sanford Whiteman
6/27/2007 4:15:34 PM

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Okay, so check out the docs and archives and post back.

A simple setup that relays mail only for authenticated sessions is
pretty much there out-of-the box when you install IIS SMTP.

Whether the SMTP server has a mailroute for the servers you are trying
to send to is another story -- but it doesn't necessarily require any
more work in your IIS config. By default, IIS SMTP uses DNS for
mailrouting. So if you don't have a working DNS, you have to either
(a) get DNS working, or (b) hard-code your mailroutes using IIS Remote
Domains.

By far, (a) is a better learning experience that is portable across
all SMTP vendors and gets you in touch with how the DNS and SMTP
RFC-driven standards, and specific vendor implementations of those
standards, interact in the real world.

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