Front Page Mail Form - Autehntication reqd in server

[Keiron]

Hi

We run a web server that has thre FP extensions installed

When clients set up mail forms to an email recipient, the form does not get
sent, and the log file shows a SMTP 503 authentication message

The mail settings are set up using their mail host (mail.domain.com), and
the user to send the email is a valid one intheir list of email accounts.

What can we do? We can use another mail server on another server we run at
the moment -but are planning on moving all domains over to our new server
that requires email authentication for sending.

Cheers for any help!

Keiron

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

If you require authentication for SMTP then you will not be able to use the
FP form mailer. There are lots of options though depending upon the server.
For example: if it's IIS you can find an ASP control that can handle sending
SMTP messages with authentication. The downside is you'll have to do a
little coding (though for this job it's usually fairly straightforward and
well documented) and you'll have to install a dll on the web server. You
should be able to find some good SMTP components at http://www.aspin.com
and possibly some free ones at http://www.sourceforge.net.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage