How to Configure SMTP. To clearly document how to configure SMTP to send s from Eclipse.net

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1 Purpose: To clearly document how to configure SMTP to send s from Eclipse.net Contents Windows Server SMTP Installation... 2 Windows Server 2008 SMTP Installation... 5 Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 (IIS6 manager) Setup... 8 Trouble Shooting Page 1 of 15

2 Windows Server 2003 SMTP Installation 1. Start the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs. 2. Click Add/Remove Windows Components. 3. After the Windows Components Wizard appears, select Applications Server and click Details. Page 2 of 15

3 4. Select Internet Information Services (IIS), then click Details. 5. Select SMTP Service, then click OK Page 3 of 15

$SMTP server should now be installed click Finish You will need to load IIS from Control Panel \ Administrative Tools \$

4 6. Continue to click OK to close all other dialog boxes until you're back at the Windows Components Wizard page, then click Next. 7. SMTP server will now be installed. 8. SMTP server should now be installed click Finish You will need to load IIS from Control Panel \ Administrative Tools \ Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager Now setup the SMTP server by following the instructions in the Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 (IIS6 manager) Setup section Page 4 of 15

Press Add Required Role Services 5. After the installation of the required roles are installed, you can now press Next. 6.

5 Windows Server 2008 SMTP Installation 1. Open Server Manager, right click My Computer and choose Manage. 2. Under Features, select Add Features 3. Press the check box next to SMTP Server 4. If there are any missing Roles that are required for this installation, Server 2008 will install them for you. Press Add Required Role Services 5. After the installation of the required roles are installed, you can now press Next. 6. You will need to go through this whole wizard again even though IIS was already installed (It needs to install IIS 6 Compatibility for SMTP to work). Press Next to continue. 7. Press Next to continue. Page 5 of 15

6 8. Press Install to continue 9. As you can see it will now install the following for IIS IIS 6 Management Compatibility and IIS 6 Management Console (if this has not already been installed). 10. Installation will begin; this process can take several minutes. Page 6 of 15

$Now in Control Panel \ Administrative Tools \ Internet$

7 11. As you can see the Installation succeeded. Installation is complete. 12. Now in Control Panel \ Administrative Tools \ Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager follow the Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 (IIS6 manager) guide below Page 7 of 15

8 Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 (IIS6 manager) Setup Setup the SMTP Virtual Server 1. Right click on the [SMTP Virtual Server] and got to Properties 2. Click onto the Access tab 3. Click on Authentication and tick Anonymous access, click OK Page 8 of 15

9 4. Click the button Relay, click Add and enter in a single computer IP address and click OK 5. Click OK 6. Untick Allow all computers which successfully authenticate to relay, regardless of the list above Page 9 of 15

The message limits restricts the emails being sent to your exchange server.

10 The message limits restricts the s being sent to your exchange server. Among the global settings are limits with the following default values: Per-message size limit of 4096 KB Per-session (delivery) of KB Per-session number of messages to 20 Per-message number of recipients to If you would like to change these values, view the properties of the SMTP virtual server and look on the Messages tab. Page 10 of 15

Provide Authentication for your e-mail server in SMTP Virtual Server: The IIS SMTP Server is used as a relay e-mail server.

11 Provide Authentication for your server in SMTP Virtual Server: The IIS SMTP Server is used as a relay server. The s need to be sent to your main server which all your clients connect to. In order for the SMTP virtual server to connect to your main server authentication will need to be provided. To set this up do the following Go to the Delivery tab 9. Click on Outbound Security and select Basic Authentication. 10. Enter a user name and password for a user on the domain which has access to send s and has a mail box on the exchange. 11. Click OK Page 11 of 15

12 12. Click Advanced 13. Enter your domain into the Fully-qualified domain name and the mail server into the Smart host (without the <> symbols) 14. Click OK 15. Press to finish configuring. 16. Click OK Page 12 of 15

In order to ensure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service starts each time the server is restarted please do the following: 17. Load Services (Run the services.msc) 18.

13 In order to ensure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service starts each time the server is restarted please do the following: 17. Load Services (Run the services.msc) 18. Right click on Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and click Properties 19. Change the Startup Type to Automatic 20. Click OK Now if you need to restart your server the SMTP server will automatically start. Page 13 of 15

Start the SMTP Virtual server Once all the settings in the previous pages have been entered Right clicking on SMTP Server click Start If it is greyed out

14 Start the SMTP Virtual server Once all the settings in the previous pages have been entered Right clicking on SMTP Server click Start If it is greyed out click Stop then right click on SMTP server again and click Start The SMTP server is now set up for s to be sent from the MLS Eclipse.net system. Page 14 of 15

Trouble Shooting Area Problem Solution Emails have not been received Emails have not been received and nothing in the queued folder and the reminder has an image.

15 Trouble Shooting Area Problem Solution s have not been received s have not been received and nothing in the queued folder and the reminder has an image. Remove the image Test sending the reminders again If these send now increase the message size Load IIS 6 management Right click on SMTP Virtual Server Click Properties Click Message tab Update the limit message size Page 15 of 15

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