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SMTP Service Windows: How to Test and Monitor it with Tools and Scripts



In the Delivery tab, select Advanced. By default, the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the local server is listed. Depending on the internet provider, the Smart Host property can remain empty. You may need to contact the internet provider to confirm if a Smart Host is required. Otherwise, you may be able to enter smtp.EMailProvider.com.




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Several providers offer SMTP service for free as well as for subscriptions of varying amounts of money. The free SMTP server list includes Google SMTP Server, Mailgun, Mailjet, Amazon SES, etc. Whatever service you choose, one thing you have to do to start using it is configuring it on your system. Here, we will take a look at how to configure an SMTP service on Windows server.


In this article, we are going to learn about installing, as well as configuring, the SMTP service on various versions of Windows server. If you are a Windows user, you can set up the service by using the built-in tools present in all versions of the Windows server. However, you should note that this SMTP server does not have any user mailboxes and you can only use it to send or forward the emails.


In addition to this, there are some cases when the devices or applications used for transmitting the emails cannot connect with the exchange servers or public email services. To resolve this problem, you need to set up a service which can work as an intermediary, like Internet Information Services (IIS).


Installing an SMTP service is an easy task on Windows server as this is an in-built feature of the server. We can initiate the installation process through the Server Manager. The method includes the following steps:


The management and configuration of the SMTP service on Windows server are done using the management console named Internet Information Service (IIS) Manager 6. To configure the service, follow the steps below:


The process mentioned above will configure your SMTP Service on your Windows server properly. Once the configuration process is complete, you can conveniently relay your emails through the service.


Install Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft SMTP ServiceBecause Microsoft SMTP Service is a component of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), you must install IIS to use Microsoft SMTP Service. To install IIS and Microsoft SMTP service, follow these steps:


  • If you find that your SMTP server occasionally crashes or hangs up after prolonged use, we recommend restarting the service daily at a "quiet time". To do so:Switch to the Monitor tab.

  • Check the At the following times box.

  • Click the Add... button to summon the dialog.

  • Specify a good time to restart the service, which should only take a few seconds. Every day at 3 AM works for us.(Note that you can choose to reboot the entire PC at that time if that is appropriate for your situation.)

  • Click the OK button to record your time.



Click the Save button. In a few seconds, an entry for the SMTP service will show up in the Service Protector window.The service may already be running but it is not yet being monitored and protected by Service Protector.


To start monitoring the SMTP service, choose Protector > Start "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)".In a couple of seconds the shield icon in the Protected column will turn green to show that the service is being managed by Service Protector:


That's it! Next time your computer boots, the IIS SMTP service will start up automatically (as normal) and Service Protector will start monitoring the service to restart it quickly it if it crashes for any reason.


We encourage you to edit the SMTP entry in Service Protector and check out the many other settings that may be helpful in your environment.For example, send email when the service fails, automatically restart if the service gets "stuck", and much more.


When IIS SMTP Server is installed, it will create a folder on the server at C:\inetpub\mailroot\Pickup. This directory is where the SMTP service picks up newly submitted emails for processing before moving them to the Queue directory.


Now that the SMTP server is installed, it must be configured. The configuration given in the tutorial will allow any computer to send messages through the service. It is obviously necessary to adapt to your situation the configuration.


My SMTP mail server requires that email be sent with TLS encryption and on port 587. This makes it problematic for Team Foundation Server (TFS) to send emails directly. To work around the problem, I installed the Windows 2008 SMTP Server service and configured it for relaying to my real SMTP mail server.


For the Smart host name, enter the Amazon SES endpoint that you will use (for example, email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com). For a list of endpoint URLs for the AWS Regions where Amazon SES is available, see Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) in the AWS General Reference.


Open the run dialog on the server, and enter services.msc. Locate the 'Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)' service, right click, choose Properties and set the service to Automatic. From now on, it will start at boot


Juris Suite requires a locally hosted Exchange server or SMTP service to transmit email. However, if your firm is using Exchange Online for Office 365, you can configure an SMTP relay to forward email to the Exchange Online server. The relay acts as an intermediary between Juris Suite and Exchange Online and allows email to be sent from Juris Suite without the need of a locally hosted Exchange server.These instructions can be modified for other SMTP relays that you might have in your organization. We recommend reviewing the steps in How to set up a multifunction device or application to send email using Office 365 before proceeding with this procedure as there may be an available option that doesn't require setting up an additional server to relay.Install the SMTP RelayConfigure the SMTP RelayConfigure Juris Suite to Send Email Through the Relay


Had to install a SMTP gateway on a Windows 2012 R2 host which already had OS SMTP service installed for testing a firewall. Normally, I would have removed via Windows Features/Roles system but the option to remove feature wad greyed out. However, using PowerShell I was able to remove the service with no problems in an administratively-elevated PowerShell prompt:


Many ISP's block outbound SMTP traffic to ensure that spammers do not abuse their service. To validate whether mail can be sent to remote hosts, use the telnet utility. This is also useful in checking if mail can be sent from the server, or diagnosing why mail cannot be sent to a remote server. Instructions follow: 1. From the Windows Start Menu select Start->Run and enter CMD as the application to open. Select OK2. At the command prompt, enter the following:telnet mail.mailenable.com 25 The remote mail server should respond with an initiation string similar to the following: 220 mail.mailenable.com ESMTP MailEnable SMTP Service, Version: x-x-x ready at 02/28/19 14:04:45 3. Type the word QUIT and then press enter.


After wasting days trying to get my mail working and cant understand why a simple thing as this a huge problem on a windows server.This is my first windows server and i must say it is crap compared to my linux servers.


After following tutorials on how to get a simple mail working i got it working but i could not connect with any email softwares to fetch my mails.The mails got delivered to the mail folder,but after trying to change the settings i think i have screwed up everything on the smtp server.


Many services and apps require some kind of email server in order to send you email notifications, warnings, errors. Windows Server 2012 doesn`t pack Exchange Server with it, but there is simple solution for sending emails from Windows Server 2012 and here is the tutorial for setting it up.


A natural extension for customers using Windows Server 2012 on AWS is to use Amazon SES for sending email. This post shows you how to configure the IIS SMTP service that is included with Windows to send email through Amazon SES. You can use the same configuration on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.


You are finished with the configuration. Right-click SMTP Virtual Server #1 again, and then restart the service to pick up the new configuration. Send an email through this SMTP server. You can examine the message headers to confirm that it was delivered through Amazon SES.


You have now configured the IIS SMTP service on Windows Server 2012 to send email using Amazon SES. If you have comments or feedback about this post or about Amazon SES, please post them in the Amazon SES forum. Happy sending with Amazon SES!


You can install an SMTP server using built-in tools in all versions of Windows Server. This SMTP server can work as a mail relay service that should receive and send SMTP emails from various devices in the organization (for example, senders, scanners, access control devices, etc.) and applications (web apps, SQL Reporting Services, SharePoint), which should be able to send mail using the SMTP protocol. Such a relay can send messages to your Exchange servers or to public email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Office 365 (outlook.com), etc. (since it is not always advisable to deploy a full-featured internal email infrastructure based on Microsoft Exchange Server or other email services). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push(); 2ff7e9595c


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