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Incoming mail to SMTP
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| Neil S 2004-06-03, 7:51 am |
| Hi
I am trying to get my hosting service (Win2000) to give me an SMTP inbox I can access using CDO NTS. They say:
<snip>
The SMTP server built into IIS5.0 is used only for the sending of mail FROM
websites configured on the same server. There is no way of delivering mail
TO this server.
</snip>
Could somebody give me an explanation of whether (and if so why) that might be true in spite of all the documentation saying "receive and relay ..." - are they getting confused with the need to have a POP3 mailbox to physically access your mail?
Thanks
Neil
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| Jeff Cochran 2004-06-03, 4:52 pm |
| On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 04:06:02 -0700, Neil S
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I am trying to get my hosting service (Win2000) to give me an SMTP inbox I can access using CDO NTS. They say:
><snip>
>The SMTP server built into IIS5.0 is used only for the sending of mail FROM
>websites configured on the same server. There is no way of delivering mail
>TO this server.
></snip>
>Could somebody give me an explanation of whether (and if so why) that might be true in spite of all the documentation saying "receive and relay ..." - are they getting confused with the need to have a POP3 mailbox to physically access your mail?
Technically, the SMTP server in W2K can accept incoming mail. You
can't use a POP/IMAP client such as Outlook to retrieve it of course.
But your hosting service may not accept incoming SMTP mail to the box
you use. In which case, they are entirely correct.
For example, I have a number of severs which *send* SMTP mail, but
only one external one that will receive it. The MX record only points
to that one, and the firewall blocks incoming traffic to the others.
Jeff
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| Neil S 2004-06-04, 7:52 am |
| Thanks, Jeff - I'd developed a hunch that it was more a question of policy than technology. Is there a single SMTP server that would be shared any all of the sites on the machine? I guess you can tell from the language that in spite of 34 years in IT, a
ll this network stuff is alien to me ...
Cheers
Neil
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