Very simple SMTP email solution

[tookawhile]

We out source our email, and we are in the process of changing provider, but have hit upon the following snag.

We use BackExec and this has the ability to email job reports and the such like, this works fine with our current provider. The BackExec email client has no provision (that I'm aware of) to set a password, you can only set the sender name, sender address and port number, SMTP mail server. Our current email provider (even though they do not support open relay) somehow managed to allow this to work for us. When testing our email with the proposed new provider it fails authentication as no password is sent with the BackExec email client.

I was wondering if Server2003 can be configured as a very simple relay(?) forwarder(?) to send the email on to the new provider? If so how do I go about it?

I basically what the app to send a message to an internal email server, which then in turns, forwards onwards to our provider using a username and password.

 

[ForumKB]

Win 2003 does have an SMTP service that can be installed, never used it as I have always used exchange but it is added in the normal way by adding windows components in add / remove programs (under the

http://WWW services

somewhere). I couldn't tell you if it will do what you want but once installed it is managed via the IIS mmc, may be worth installing and having a poke about to see if there is anything of interest.





Adrian Paris

Paris Engineering Ltd

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