Does anyone know why my SMTP service won't start? It is saying :

Error 1053 the service did not respond to the start or control request time in a timely manner.

It used to be working with my CDONTS program but recently I noticed that it is not doing an auto reply anymore. What I then did was stopped the service and started it. This is when I got the error message above. What could have caused this porblem.

I am sorry this is not an ASP question but I was hoping that somebody might have had to go through this when they wrote their CDONTS program in ASP.

Thanks,
Judy

I also looked at the event viewer and noticed that I have an warning message that says:

Message Delivery to the remote Domain : 'office.org' failed for the following reason: The remote server did not respond to a connection attempt.


This server is our web server which used to be part of our network. After we decided to host our own website we detached it from our network so this is now a standalone web server with no connection to our local network. Is this what's causing me this problem? It did work before though.

Thanks,
Judy

Hi

Have you gone through the process of reinstalling SMTP/IIS on the machine? It might be that there are corruption within the IIS Metabase and there are ways to restore/recreate the metabase. If it would not be to much of a headache to recreate your IIS config for your website then I would have tried restoring the Metabase or recreating it. There are allot of artikles available from MS website regarding this.

Rgrds
M



Such is Life!

It is working now but I don't know if it's because I re-connected the web server to our Local Area Network. I wonder, please anybody, if it is not sending e-mail to recipients even though I use CDONTS is because we need an e-mail/exchange server connected?

If our web server does not have an e-mail server will this prevent CDONTS not to deliver e-mail? I thought just starting the SMTP service will do the job?

Thanks,
Judy