Saturday, May 16, 2009

SMTP Setting to send outbound email

Here i am going to explain about steps required to configure SMTP (Local SMTP) to send outbound email.

Steps.
1. Go to run and Type inetmgr. After inetmgr ( Internet information services manager ) open. Right click on Default SMTP virtual server ( As shown in figure 1) . If this is not displayed in your inetmgr then you need to first install SMTP services using Add/ Remove component.
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2. After right click on Default SMTP virtual server go for property 
menu item. It will display as show in following image.
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3. Now go in Access Tab and click on relay. Please select as shown in following image and click ok.
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4. After that go for delivery tab. ( Display as follows)
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5. Click on outbound security . In that tab select basic authentication. Here i am using by gmail account to send outbound email. AS gmail required TLS (security to transfer credential) , you have to select TLS encryption checkbox too.Then click on ok.
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7. Now go for outbound connection button. It will display as follows. Please specify TCP port as 587 for gmail otherwise 25 as default.
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8. Click on Advanced . Configure as follows . In case of other SMTP , you have to specify that smtp server.

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Click ok and then finally click on apply. Now restart smtp server using inetmgr.
Note : Here i took Gmail smtp setting . For that you need to configure Gmail account from Gmail setting and click on IMAP enable.

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