Can you please tell how this forum is available via NNTP - Using Windows Mail I can connect to msnews.microsoft.com and view, post, and rate all the comments, questions, etc. in this forum. Any idea how I can set-up a similar infrastructure inside my company intranet. Can I run IIS6 alongwith IIS7? Best...

I am trying to configure the SMTP server ... after seeking advise form a local expert, I am told that In Windows Server 2008, SMTP services can only be configured and managed using the Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager Console. Basically, when you try to add SMTP Services, the prerequisites...

OK I cracked it ! I had to explicity tell the server that it was allowed to forward mail generated by itself. So in this case: Server 1 forwarding to server 2. Server 1 had to have 127.0.0.1 in its allowed list in the relay settings. I don't remember it being that way in previous versions, but hey...

@ Paul. Good advice. Thanks. I did that and it connected. Still unsure now what the issue could be though. I can only assume that I must have configured something wrong. Hmmm ...... Guess that's my task for the day. Firewall, etc Any ideas welcome. Regards Dave

Now the host is telling me that they aren't blocking port 25 after all. They said that they had already opened it up for us on our vlan. @Paul - I know that they weren't being mean, I know it's best practice etc etc. I was just frustrated when I wrote that ! lol So end result is that I am...

Hi again, So I checkded the settings according to the link you gave, added [] in case it was timeing out or something no luck. So, logic says that I should be able to send mail without doing any forwarding if I set it up the same as the server that works. Done that, still no mail. I have un-installed...