Hello,

I am using ASP CDONTS to enable the SMTP to send out an e-mail with no 
luck. The CDONTS is working fine and yes, the SMTP service is running. I 
also have valid "to" and "from" settings in my ASP code unless "from" 
needs to be tied to a domain name set up on the IIS server or something. 

What is happening is that I get different error messages in the SMTP Queue 
folder depending on what IP address I put in the Smart Host field. Here 
are some details:

The server with IIS (and SMTP ofcourse) does not have a mail server. We 
use a proxy server for our web/e-mail connections. 

The IIS server does not have any DNS set up so I want to use the DNS 
service of our ISP to handle it. Therefore I am trying to use the IP 
address of our ISP SMTP service (smtp.cetec.com) in the Smart Host field. 
I am not even sure if this is correct. 

At first the error message in the queue was "...host not found". Then I 
thought I had to configure the tcp/ip settings (control panel/network 
settings/protocols/tcp/ip) to use our proxy server's IP as a gateway IP. 
Is this right?

When I did this and rebooted, I get a "connection timed out" message in 
the queue. I get the same when I try to ping the ISP SMTP service with 
their IP address.

Also, I don't know how to setup DNS names on the IIS computer if I wanted 
to.

Lastly, I put a valid username and password for our ISP in the "OUTBOUND 
SECURITY" section of the SMTP properties. Is this how the ISP validates 
our account???

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mark