Mailserver help needed please...

[judas]

We've installed Merak Email Server on our Win 2003 webserver to provide POP3 and other main functionality. However, it's managed to bugger up all the ASP mail scripts on all the websites and none of them work now. They all use CDO to send the e-mails but now all the e-mails generated by the scripts are sat in the IIS drop folder gathering dust. The default IIS SMTP server was disabled by installing Merak, but we've restarted it on another port. Still no joy.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks.

[_DJ_]

Probably a daft question and not much help, but why not use the built in POP3/SMTP Server?

[judas]

_DJ_ said:

Probably a daft question and not much help, but why not use the built in POP3/SMTP Server?

Believe me - we tried that route and it wouldn't work - the functionality is too basic (meaning Microsoft hope you will then go on to purchase an Exchange Server licence at about $4000). We needed a fully featured mail server for all the domains hosted on the server - didn't expect it to kill basic SMTP functions used by ASP mail scripts though

[_DJ_]

judas said:

_DJ_ said: Probably a daft question and not much help, but why not use the built in POP3/SMTP Server? Believe me - we tried that route and it wouldn't work - the functionality is too basic (meaning Microsoft hope you will then go on to purchase an Exchange Server licence at about $4000). We needed a fully featured mail server for all the domains hosted on the server - didn't expect it to kill basic SMTP functions used by ASP mail scripts though

It is very basic, and yes, they were careful to keep it so basic so you would buy Exchange. You should be able to host as many domains as you want using the basic SMTP service though (after all, Exchange 2003 uses it!).
I'm really at a loss as to why it's no longer delivering mail. If it's dropping the mail in the correct place, then it should get delivered regardless of what else is installed on the server.
If you're getting mail in the drop directory, that would indicate that the SMTP service thinks that the domain to which the message is addressed is local (drop is for incoming mail). Have you removed all of the local domains defined for the native SMTP service and specified a generic remote domain (*)?

Darren.

[judas]

Thanks for the help

_DJ_ said:

I'm really at a loss as to why it's no longer delivering mail.

You and me both

_DJ_ said:

If it's dropping the mail in the correct place, then it should get delivered regardless of what else is installed on the server. If you're getting mail in the drop directory, that would indicate that the SMTP service thinks that the domain to which the message is addressed is local (drop is for incoming mail). Have you removed all of the local domains defined for the native SMTP service and specified a generic remote domain (*)?

The weird thing is, some of the emails generated by the mails scripts are sitting in the Queue folder, whereas others are sitting in the Drop folder. In either case they aren't going out...

[judas]

Update: for some reason we cannot delete the domain configurations for the default SMTP virtual server. Just no option to do it anywhere!

[_DJ_]

That should just be for *.servername.serverdnssuffix which I presume you're not using?
If things are stuck in the queue I'd guess that either:
a) It cannot resolve the name of the destination server
b) Something is preventing it from talking to the desination server
The drop folder issue is obviously different. Have you tried specifying an SMTP smarthost? It assumes that the SH listens on port 25, so you should just be able to specify 'localhost' and it'll send mail to the other mail service you've installed. Your other mail service will obviously have to be configured to allow relaying from it though...

Darren.

[tamfto]

I use Merak mail server on my web servers too.

What port have you got SMTP running in IIS? I set mine up to run on port 2525, thats on the advanced tab (2000 server).

Under connection, outgoing is still set to port 25.

Any help?

[judas]

tamfto said:

I use Merak mail server on my web servers too. What port have you got SMTP running in IIS? I set mine up to run on port 2525, thats on the advanced tab (2000 server). Under connection, outgoing is still set to port 25. Any help?

Just wish you'd posted this about 24 hourse ago

We'd finally got it sussed and I jumped back on the thread to say that this was the problem, an lo and behold someone's just posted the solution... Fecking computers - don't you just love 'em

Do you have to join the nerd equivalent of the masons before you're allowed access to any usedful, comprehensive documentation on think kinda thing

Ah well, at least I can now relax this weekend

Thanks for all the help folks!