SMTP - How to Configure it

[nsanto17]

This is the first time i am attempting to run the SMTP service without an exchange server in place. I am at a location where they outsource there e-mail to a third party hosting company. When sending e-mails with attachements it takes a long time. I have a DC that does not do much on the network at all so i figured i would install the SMTP to handle all of their out going traffic. I want to configure the SMTP server to use thier ISP Mail Server. I am not sure where in the configuration screens the ISP Mail server address goes.

Can anyone shed some light on this.

Thanks

Nick

 

[markdmac]

As far as I know it does not work that way. Your local SMTP server would use local DNS to figure out where mail has to go and send it there directly, not through an intermediate server.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Castor66]

Right Click on the Default SMTP Virtual Server. Select Properties then Delivery. Under Advanced you will have an option called Smart Host. Enter the name of the ISP mail server. Ok it all. You might have to use brackets, [ ].

You must allow the mail server to relay for the local network as well. That's under Properties|Access|Relay.

 

[markdmac]

Castor66, he is talking about the Windows SMTP Service, not Exchange. They use POP accounts.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Castor66]

I have a DC that does not do much on the network at all so i figured i would install the SMTP to handle all of their out going traffic.

Well, this sounded to me like he wanted to use his DC to send mail out rather than have each individual PC make SMTP connections to the ISP mail server.

 

[markdmac]

You are correct, but there is no virtual SMTP server unless you have Exchange.

I am attempting to run the SMTP service without an exchange server in place.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Castor66]

Yes - there is. It's part of IIS.

 

[markdmac]

I must confess I've never seen that, probably because all of my installs have always been with Exchange. I'll have to look for it next time before I install Exchange. Thanks for the clarification Castor66.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[nsanto17]

Thank you everyone for all of your help.

The Virtual SMTP Server is apart of IIS and uses your current DNS Server to resolve Domain Names.
I wanted the clients to go though my DC instead of using my ISP's Mail server. I have changed about half of my office to go through the new Virtual SMTP and so far the feed back from my users has been great. My users were using a lot of bandwidth connecting the ISP SMTP mail server. Also in the past few weeks my ISP was having issues with their mail servers and this causes us to be crippled.

Thank you

Nick