[thelist] SMTP service on IIS

Steve Cook steve.cook at evitbe.com
Mon Jul 9 10:03:20 CDT 2001


Thanks Scott - I found your Evolt article on using the SMTP pickup directory
earlier - very useful.

Here's the issue - I found the pickup directory under Exchange server (it's
\ExchSrvr\Imcdata\pickup). However the mail server we have is sitting on our
network and our webserver is on our ISP's network. We have a leased line
between the two and I was hoping that they could simply create a connection
from the webserver to our machine so that Jmail could dump files into the
pickup directory.

Unfortunately they can't create a connection as the machines are on separate
networks (or something - I suspect it's more that it creates a bit of a
security hole for them).

We are now toying with the idea of creating the mail files on the webserver
and using a simple script on the local machine to grab the files and
download them to the pickup directory. A roundabout way of doing it, but it
should probably work.

I've been trying to solve this problem for months! I'm afraid to hope I
might finally be getting near a solution (touches wood dramatically!).

.steve

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Steve Cook
web strategist
Evitbe AB tidigare Biljettpoolen
031-15 16 17   0703-13 26 31
steve.cook at evitbe.com     www.evitbe.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Dexter [mailto:sgd at ti3.com]
> Sent: den 9 juli 2001 16:45
> To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> Subject: RE: [thelist] SMTP service on IIS
> 
> 
> 
> > Can anyone advise on the best way of upgrading the IIS 
> > installation so that
> > the SMTP service is included?
> 
> the SMTP server is part of the Option Pack CD ...
> 
> > 
> > Alternatively we have Exchange 5.5 running on the same 
> > machine - is there an
> 
> ooh. You can't have the SMTP Server and Exchange on the same machine. 
> 
> > equivalent SMTP pickup directory to C:\InetPub\mailroot\pickup under
> > Exchange?
> 
> I dunno, but you can connect to the Exchange server using MAPI...
> 
> sgd
> 
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