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...

This appears to be a new problem, so I thought id put it in another thread. I have IIS6's SMTP server set up correctly and I can email from outlook and using the telnet promt. However when i use TFmail.pl to send an email it returns the error: SMTP command [RCPT TO:<me@gmail.com>] gave response...

Hi Bernard, Thanks for your reply. Actually i am developing a configuration tool which has to check whether a perticular SMTP server (ip as 127.0.0.1) is allowed relaying or not. We can see that by clicking Default SMTP vertual server--> properties-->access--relay-->one the list below-->...

Hi, I need to check whether the email server allows “relaying” programmatically in C#.net . I need to check IP: 127.0.0.1 may relay through virtula server. (default SMTP Virtual Server--> properties-->Access-->Relay) Can any one please help me in this regard. Thanks Sivakumar

We are developing a tool (windows application) to check certain configurations. One among them is to read whether enable drop directory quota under IIS-->Default SMTP Virtual server-->Default domain is enabled or not. Can any one please help me how to read programatically. Thanks Sivakumar V

Hi Everybody, I have the following queries in IIS6.0. Pls help me in this. 1. I need to know what are all the various components/Services installed in IIS6.0, through Settings files like MetaBase.xml, etc or Registry entries. Not from Control Panel or IIS Manager. 2. How do I know what are all the services...