IIS and SMTP - IIS SMTP not sending

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IIS SMTP not sending

whitefox

2004-07-18, 1:40 am

I am using the SMTP server in IIS5.0 on a Win2K server platform to send e-mail from a web page. The e-mail is being delivered into the Pickp folder, and is ending up in the Drop folder, but the e-mail is never delivered. There are no files in any of the other folders under mailroot. None of the e-mails actually make it to the recipients. Also, there is no log being created. I have loging set up so that a new log file is created for every day, but no log files exists.

I am using a strange port configuration. I have IIS SMTP set up on port 8089 instead of port 25. This is because I am also running a full fledged mail server (pop, smtp, and webmail) on the same computer, and that uses port 25. I can't see why putting it on a differant port would cause this porblem, but I figured I should give as much data on the setup as possible.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

Jeff Cochran

2004-07-18, 5:53 pm

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:40:30 -0500, whitefox
<whitefox.19kx8z@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote:

>
>I am using the SMTP server in IIS5.0 on a Win2K server platform to send
>e-mail from a web page. The e-mail is being delivered into the Pickp
>folder, and is ending up in the Drop folder, but the e-mail is never
>delivered. There are no files in any of the other folders under
>mailroot. None of the e-mails actually make it to the recipients.
>Also, there is no log being created. I have loging set up so that a
>new log file is created for every day, but no log files exists.
>
>I am using a strange port configuration. I have IIS SMTP set up on
>port 8089 instead of port 25. This is because I am also running a full
>fledged mail server (pop, smtp, and webmail) on the same computer, and
>that uses port 25. I can't see why putting it on a differant port
>would cause this porblem, but I figured I should give as much data on
>the setup as possible.

First, why not use CDO or a mail component to send the mail using the
primary SMTP instead of installing Microsoft's SMTP?

Second, see:

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2268

Third, test using:

HOW TO: Test Windows 2000 IIS SMTP Services Manually
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;286421

Jeff

Ken Schaefer

2004-07-19, 2:51 am

The different port shouldn't make any difference AFAIK.

However:
a) are you sure that the MS SMTP server is running? Check the service status
in the Services Admin tool
b) any errors in the Windows Event Log?
c) does the MS SMTP server have any DNS resolution issues?
d) the From: address in the emails you are creating - is the @domainname.com
part a real, resolvable, domain? If not, MS SMTP server will not deliver it.

Cheers
Ken

"whitefox" <whitefox.19kx8z@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote in message
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>
> I am using the SMTP server in IIS5.0 on a Win2K server platform to send
> e-mail from a web page. The e-mail is being delivered into the Pickp
> folder, and is ending up in the Drop folder, but the e-mail is never
> delivered. There are no files in any of the other folders under
> mailroot. None of the e-mails actually make it to the recipients.
> Also, there is no log being created. I have loging set up so that a
> new log file is created for every day, but no log files exists.
>
> I am using a strange port configuration. I have IIS SMTP set up on
> port 8089 instead of port 25. This is because I am also running a full
> fledged mail server (pop, smtp, and webmail) on the same computer, and
> that uses port 25. I can't see why putting it on a differant port
> would cause this porblem, but I figured I should give as much data on
> the setup as possible.
>
> Any help would be greatly apreciated.
>
>
>
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