i have a problem in that I have a machine where archive files get dumped into a share -- it runs 24/7 (heatlhcare -- typically 1 hr. downtime in 3 mos.) and we have to keep them. Unfortunately, they get dumped into a single directory. I have to keep about 2 weeks' worth that's active & o...more >>

I have the Vista Home Premium operating system and I do software development on it using Visual Studio.Net. I am developing an ASP.Net web application that sends out emails. I need to configure SMTP and I have tried several options from installing SmarterMail and Free Smtp. I was able to ac...more >>

Hello, I am creating a web site that will send emails to different people based on who is logged into the website. This is the situation. I am using Windows Server 2003 with POP3 and SMTP. A new client will purchase a Domain Name and a Static IP address (from a different company). W...more >>

Trying to cut down the volume of SPAM on my W2003 MX. I would like to deny access based on domain names from coutries I don't expect to be receiving mail from - which would basically include everywhere except the US, UK, Canada and Austrailia. But it seems very tedious to type in each of the ...more >>

Neil Fox's Juke Box on Capital Radio (week ending 15/March/1998) Certainty level: 70% Here is an excerpt from Neil Fox's show on Capital Radio 95.8FM, sometime during the week ending Sunday 15/March/1998 (probably during the weekend, but I don't remember). First I will give the text of ...more >>

Hi, I just upgraded my computer to Vista and was using the below script to send mail through my smtp in XP but this doesn't want to work with Vista. Is there a place in Vista to set up what server to relay from? Set objEmail = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objEmail.From = "me" objEmail.To ...more >>

Hi Folks (and Sandy!); I'm running IIS 5's SMTP service and am having problems sending mail to hotmail accounts - at least that's how it looks. I removed my domain names from my Hotmail account safe list and then tried sending email to it - it does not show up even though my mail settings at...more >>

Hi, I got some bad mails in bad mail folder, Please see details: Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-Message rejected because (mydomain.ca) [204.10.241.83]:1842 is blacklisted at 550 see I use stmpdiag tool and can success connect to the target machine. Why caused this? and how to fix it? Thanks. ...more >>

I tried to find any info about this but I couldnt find anything. I can't seem to get my 32 bit event sink dll written in VB6 to work on Windows 2003 Server 64 bit, it worked fine on our previous 32 bit server. The smtpreg.vbs reports success and I don not get any log errors, it just doesn'...more >>

I am using the vanilla SMTP server to send outgoing mail from a Windows Server 2003 machine. The machine has 5 IP addresses. I noticed that I had a non-delivery report for a piece of otherwise valid mail saying: Diagnostic-Code: smtp;521-EHLO/HELO from sender aaa.bbb.ccc.122 does not map to...more >>

Our ASP.NET application sends an email using IIS SMTP service with several URL hyperlinks inside. The weird thing is one of the URL would always drop a "." between file name and the extension. For example, ASP.NET would only show ASPNET in the URL when we receive the email. We checked the ema...more >>

I've installed 5xxsink on our IIS server and it works great....except.... Every so often (sometimes minutes, sometimes hours) IIS just shuts down. I have both the prescan.txt and the rcptlist.txt in the appropriate directories. The prescan.txt contains 1 entry with our domain name and the ...more >>

Subject: Re: MI5? Please can someone explain what's going on here? Newsgroups: uk.misc References: <4l1khm$4cn@utopia.hacktic.nl> <4l2lhj$6h6@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Organization: Toronto Free-Net Distribution: David Stretch (dds@leicester.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <19960418.000817.55@hotch.ho...more >>

Hi I want to send out email represent my franchise (use service@myfranchise.com for From) use SMTP service, the email will go to Junk Email folder. But If I send our use outlook/express in my franchise’s computer, it’s ok. Someone said need to add my server IP to the domain MX record, is it a s...more >>

Our company uses Ms Exchange Svr. 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003. All of a sudden last week, we started getting a lot of NDR reports with the following error message: There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. ...more >>

Setup is W2K3 SP1, IIS 6.0. Emails without attachments are 'always' delivered to the user mailbox for pickup by POP3. With attachments, some are certainly delivered, however some are not, although I have the delivering mailserver logs showing acceptance, and matching IIS mail log entries co...more >>

I'm using IIS 6 on my ISA 2004 firewall as a SMTP relay to a backend Exchange 2003 server. I'm hoping to use 5xxsink to stop NDR. Can someone point me to information on how to populate the rcptlist? I have several hundred users. -Steve...more >>

I'm using IIS 6 on Server 2003 set up a SMTP relay server for some network devices to use to send logs and alerts. These devices are not windows based and are dynamically IP addressed so I am stuck with basic authentication. This server is a stand alone and not in an AD. The problem is th...more >>

I have a new Win2003 SP2 server installed. IIS with ASP.NET is the only service installed. There are 5 different domains on the server with static HTML pages. Now, we want to have some asp.net sites that will require email to be sent from them. I know I need to install the SMTP service, but ...more >>

The CEO at my firm is not able to send mail to a friend at a particular mail domain. I have read countless articles on the MS KB as well as links within the article and nothing has resolved the issue. I have a PIX 515E firewall that has the fix protocol smtp 25 command enabled. I read an artic...more >>

Recently, I have started receiveding lots of NDRs "Undeliverable: FW: Enquiry for Jack" because of Blacklisted IP in some of the database. I get IP(dynamic) from my ISP thru ADSL. Please help My configuration as follows: Domain controller configured with DNS Exchange Server 2003 std. Ed...more >>

Good Morning, I am currently in the process of testing the SMTP setup using local mailboxes (just mine so far) for testing purposes. Using the 5xxsink I have added the domains I want to send to to the prescan and recipient list's respectively. I can send email just fine, however when I ...more >>

Good Morning, I had another question regarding unwanted traffic. I have installed 5xxsink and it works beautifully, however; is there any way to implement an (additional) actual whitelist of approved domains (to be used in conjunction with 5xxsink) that we would accept email from? I am c...more >>

Good Morning, I have recently configured a new Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0 SMTP Server. I am not using Exchange, just SMTP. Everything is working fine, I can send emails to our SharePoint 3 enabled document library internally as well as from an external source. I have relaying restricted...more >>