| skyline 2006-07-20, 7:22 pm |
| I installed the SMTP feature of IIS to a Windows 2003 Server. After getting
it configured to my liking, I attempted to start it and after a delay it
refused to start, saying it did not respond in a timely fashion.
Checking the event log I find this error:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 7/19/2006
Time: 2:43:06 PM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service failed to start due to the
following error:
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not
implement the service.
After searching for a while, I found only references of people running
Exchange needing to uninstall and reinstall SMTP and then reinstalling
Exchange. We are going to use it for just standard SMTP relaying (no
Exchange), but I decided to uninstall and reinstall anyway. After doing that
the SMTP service did not even show up in IIS Admin console but the service
still existed but would not restart and gets the same error as above. I
found the following TID to get it back into the IIS console:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555030/en-us
Now I am back where I started.
I am going to restart the server tonight during off time, but I was hoping
someone could shed some light on this issue without requiring a complete
reinstall of IIS on the box.
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