SMTP mail

[Krish]

All,
I want to have mail sending capabilities in my .NET application
running on IIS6.0.

I cannot use any enterprise's exchange server. I want to use the
locally running SMTP service in the webserver to send the emails.

The webserver will have a public IP and a domain will be registered
for the web server.

Are these enough for having the SMTP mail capabilities?
Please help me in identifying any other requirements if any for this.

Bala

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=]

All,
I want to have mail sending capabilities in my .NET application
running on IIS6.0.

I cannot use any enterprise's exchange server. I want to use the
locally running SMTP service in the webserver to send the emails.

The webserver will have a public IP and a domain will be registered
for the web server.

Are these enough for having the SMTP mail capabilities?
Please help me in identifying any other requirements if any for this.

Bala

You also need access to the internet through port 25. Some internet
providers close this port to prevent spamming, in this case you have to
use the SMTP server of your internet provider.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Your SMPT server will need to authenticate to the recipient server.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

DSI PrintManager, Miradyne Component Libraries:
http://www.miradyne.net

 

[John Vottero]

Your SMPT server will need to authenticate to the recipient server.

This is incorrect. Most SMTP servers only require authentication if you
want to relay mail. The OP is not relaying.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

This is incorrect. Most SMTP servers only require authentication if you

want to relay mail. The OP is not relaying.

Hi John,

Yes, you're right, sorry. Brain fart.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

DSI PrintManager, Miradyne Component Libraries:
http://www.miradyne.net

 

[ThunderMusic]

Hi,
It's actually enough if your ISP is not closing the SMTP port (25). But you
can actually need much more than that depending of your e-mail load. Like if
you want to send to a lot of people just like a bulletin or a mailing list,
many SMTP servers are now "protected" in some way to block mails according
to their content, source, number of inexistant mailbox in an hour, et al.
You may need a whole processing server that will relay your mails and make
sure it was delivered correctly. There are many companies that offer this
kind of service on the internet, so maybe you'd want to use these.

If you want some, just drop me a line...

ThunderMusic

 

[Krish]

Thanks a lot for all the replies.
I will check and update you all on the progress.

THanks
Kris