smtp service for IIS 4.0 1

[Lizardking]

Question..first the basics..NT 4.0 sp 5. iis 4.0.<br>
I have the basic smtp service service set up. It appears to be configured properly according to the sparse documentation I've found. It's only acting to send mail not to receive or foward. I'm using the default domain. Unfortunately there is an error message in the event log &quot;Virtual Server 1: Routing extension was not specified. Delivery to mailboxes is not available. &quot; It appears that the service is not sending the mail.<br>
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Any suggestions..help..<br>
Mitch.

 

[Warcorp]

It sounds like you have not specified which inbound domains that are allowed to be routed internally. The SMTP servers is a subset of the Exchange Ineternet Connector so if follows a lot of the same rules. Make sure the &quot;fully qualified domain&quot; information is properly set up as well as having all domains the local system is routing in the domains section. <p>Jim Collin<br><a href=mailto:Jim@collin.cc>Jim@collin.cc</a><br><a href=

http://www.collin.cc>Collin

Technologies</a><br>Consumer Technology Integration<br>

 

[djfxsi]

hey,<br>
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I had the same problem. even worse, I wasn't even sure if the smtp service suppose to receive emails. I thought it only sends email. my question would be, how is the email users defined. for example, how can I set up a email account for sales@domain, and how would i be able to check emails, since I think it doesn't support pop3 or IMAP.<br>
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thanks for any help.

 

[Lizardking]

My problem was fixed when I uninstalled the service, rebooted, then installed it again (just the smtp) and rebooted. I'm still getting the same error message in the event log &quot;Virtual Server 1: Routing extension was not specified. Delivery to mailboxes is not available&quot; but it's sending mail. btu it's working..<br>
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To answer the last post..the iis smtp service isn't set up to be a smtp server similar to exchange server in the sense you can use a client like eudora to retrieve mail. Any mail it recieves goes into a directory under the mailroot. the messages show up as text files or a basic mail format depending on who sent the mail and they have to be manually sorted..

 

[uncleroydee]

Along this same line, I've just stood up an SMTP server that is designed to send CDONTS messages. My Client (customer, not computer) wants a mail drop for the e-mail address specified in the From field of the CDONTS mail messages. And the system admins don't want me using a bogus address because if they see a lot of hits to a nondeliverable address they may block the sender's address.

I get the impression that SMTP can use the Drop folder to store received messages, but how does one direct incoming messages to that drop folder? If my From address is &quot;uncleroydee@myserver.net&quot;, how can I configure IIs on &quot;myserver&quot; to accept those messages and put them in the drop folder? Assuming that &quot;myserver.net&quot; is my fully qualified domain name, do I have to have an mx server forward the mail? Or can I add any user name in front of &quot;@myserver.net&quot; and all mail to &quot;myserver.net&quot; will get to the Drop folder?

Thanks.