Hi

I am a developer and know only concepts
we just got computer from hosting company and
installed our site. This site sometimes needs to send emails
and we (site support) need to read replies

platform is w2003/iis6
and as I understand default SMTP server is the ticket


now there bunch of parameters I just cant make cense of:

we have domain say

ourdomain.com

hosting company calls computer

hostername.hosterdomains.com

How our SMTP server is called???!!!
what is MX record points to for ourdomain.com ??
where to add account to SMTP virtual server say info@ourdomain.com   ??

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Forget the built in one (it's cr_p) and get yourself a dedicated SMTP
server;

http://www.argosoft.com/

Use their mail server myself and it's fantastic.

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

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> Hi
>
> I am a developer and know only concepts
> we just got computer from hosting company and
> installed our site. This site sometimes needs to send emails
> and we (site support) need to read replies
>
> platform is w2003/iis6
> and as I understand default SMTP server is the ticket
>
>
> now there bunch of parameters I just cant make cense of:
>
> we have domain say
>
> ourdomain.com
>
> hosting company calls computer
>
> hostername.hosterdomains.com
>
> How our SMTP server is called???!!!
> what is MX record points to for ourdomain.com ??
> where to add account to SMTP virtual server say info@ourdomain.com   ??
>
>

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Hi,

You say that you need to send emails, and read replies. While the SMTP
server can receive emails, it will only store them in the DROP folder (so
SMTP does not care about email accounts). My understanding of your message
is that you want to get your emails thru a standard email client, such as
Outlook. Is this correct?

If so, you need both SMTP and POP3. Windows Server 2003 has this however.
I have an article on the Email Server in Windows Server 2003 available
here:

http://www.gafvert.info/EmailServer.htm

Now to your questions:

How our SMTP server is called???!!!
Well, the name of the SMTP server seems to be hostername.hosterdomains.com.

what is MX record points to for ourdomain.com ??
You want your customers to send emails to someone@domain.com, right? The
"problem" with this is that this would send the email to the computer that
is named domain.com. Your SMTP server might not be named this, so someone
invented MX records, which you use to point to your SMTP server. So you
would point the MX record to the IP of the SMTP server.

where to add account to SMTP virtual server say info@ourdomain.com   ??
SMTP does not work with account (it simply drops all emails in a folder
and let some other service take care of the rest). POP3 does however have
account. Please see my article referenced above for instructions how to
use the email (POP3 and SMTP) server in Windows Server 2003.

Good Luck!


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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com


greg wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am a developer and know only concepts
> we just got computer from hosting company and
> installed our site. This site sometimes needs to send emails
> and we (site support) need to read replies
>
> platform is w2003/iis6
> and as I understand default SMTP server is the ticket
>
>
> now there bunch of parameters I just cant make cense of:
>
> we have domain say
>
> ourdomain.com
>
> hosting company calls computer
>
> hostername.hosterdomains.com
>
> How our SMTP server is called???!!!
> what is MX record points to for ourdomain.com ??
> where to add account to SMTP virtual server say info@ourdomain.com   ??

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