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| Darlene D. Murphy 2005-06-24, 8:48 pm |
| Not sure where to ask this question, but here it is? I know that when we
install IIS we get an SMTP server along with the localhost. Why does this
not work.
For instance when developing in PHP, perl, or ASP and I want to test the
application on my laptop before uploading it to a live server. I can not
test the mail process.
Do we have to add another mail server on our systems to do this? By the way
I am using Windows XP Pro, IIS 6.0.
Thanks
Dee
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| Kristofer Gafvert [MVP] 2005-06-25, 2:48 am |
| Hi Darlene,
The SMTP server installed with IIS do work. It may however not work
out-of-the-box with your application. You may need to configure it
properly (to match the configuration on the live server).
There are many other things that can go wrong when using SMTP locally. For
example, your ISP may block port 25 (outgoing), and therefore, your emails
you send are vanished.
In your case, what does "does not work" mean?
Are you using IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003) or Windows XP (IIS 5.1)? IIS
6.0 does not install the SMTP server unless you choose it.
--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert (IIS MVP)
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com
Darlene D. Murphy wrote:
> Not sure where to ask this question, but here it is? I know that when
we
> install IIS we get an SMTP server along with the localhost. Why does
this
> not work.
>
> For instance when developing in PHP, perl, or ASP and I want to test the
> application on my laptop before uploading it to a live server. I can not
> test the mail process.
>
> Do we have to add another mail server on our systems to do this? By the
way
> I am using Windows XP Pro, IIS 6.0.
>
> Thanks
> Dee
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| Darlene Murphy 2005-06-25, 5:50 pm |
| I am using Windows XP Pro. so I guess I had the wrong version on IIS on
my prevous note. Do I have to reinstall IIS? If I look under IIS,
localhost, I see an smtp server there.
Another thing could this be happening because I am using a DHPC address?
I am using road runner with wireless.
Thanks
Dee
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| Kristofer Gafvert [MVP] 2005-06-25, 5:50 pm |
| Why would you have to reinstall IIS? So far, we have not gotten any
information about what is "not working".
I do not know about Road Runner, but i do know that many ISPs block port
25. Please ask your ISP if they do that. Whatever you do, you cannot
expect SMTP to work flawless on a DHCP address, because many other SMTP
servers will block emails coming from such address (because they think it
is spam). It may work okay for testing, depending on if the remote SMTP
server you are testing with, accepts emails from your local SMTP server.
--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert (IIS MVP)
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com
Darlene Murphy wrote:
> I am using Windows XP Pro. so I guess I had the wrong version on IIS on
> my prevous note. Do I have to reinstall IIS? If I look under IIS,
> localhost, I see an smtp server there.
>
> Another thing could this be happening because I am using a DHPC address?
> I am using road runner with wireless.
>
> Thanks
> Dee
>
>
>
> *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.codecomments.com ***
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| Jeff Cochran 2005-06-26, 2:47 am |
| On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:35:51 -0400, "Darlene D. Murphy"
<deemurphy_us@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not sure where to ask this question, but here it is? I know that when we
>install IIS we get an SMTP server along with the localhost. Why does this
>not work.
Good question.
>For instance when developing in PHP, perl, or ASP and I want to test the
>application on my laptop before uploading it to a live server. I can not
>test the mail process.
Why can't you?
>Do we have to add another mail server on our systems to do this? By the way
>I am using Windows XP Pro, IIS 6.0.
Tell us what you mean when you say it doesn't work.
Jeff
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