Hi all,
I had posted for a help last time with a very helpful reply from Imar, Thanks again Imar, I did was able to figure out relay options in the SMTP server. I have also enabled relay to receive message for my server to the proxy one. But was not able to find much on Smart Host in the IIS. Please can u help me and give me more information on this. It would me a real big help for me. I will just explain the whole setup in detail so that the thing is clear.
We have one Windows 2000 Advanced Server as the main domain server on LAN, we have two more servers on the same domain one used as proxy and other just for sites development and creating local sites for development. Now I have a site on this third server, and have to send mails from LAN to the proxy so that it goes in the World Wide Web. I am using CDONTS object to create mails.
Now what are the settings do i need to do to get the whole thing running.
Thanking you all in advance

Regards
Shabbir

Hi Shabbir,

It all depends on your proxy and the mail server you are using. If you have Exchange or another mail server in your organization, you can set the name of that server in the Relaying options for the Microsoft SMTP server. (The Smart Host is another term for the server you are forwarding your messages to).

The mail server should then be able to forward the mail to another server, or send it directly. Again, this all depends on your setup.

Alternatively, you can send the Smart Host to be the SMTP server of your ISP. Not sure how you would handle authentication if the SMTP server requires it, though.

You may want to take a look here. If you search Google for Smart Host, relay, IIS and SMTP you'll find lots of other useful pages.

HtH,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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