Outgoing Email Settings
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Hi guys, I have been struggling around configuring outgoing email settings in sharepoint, don't feel sorry for me this is the life i have chosen. I'm tired of beating myself down with settings that i'm not sure if they gonna work. Somebody told me not to guess but understand the flow first and i think that was a smart advice. So having said that i'd like to know when an email alert message is generated by a sharepoint site, what's the path it takes until it gets delivered to an email server. Who are the middle players that take part until the message is delivered to an email server and what are the positions of this middle players? and the only middle player that i can think of here is smtp virtual server which comes along with iis. Now here is my scenario: On Server A i have SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration running and IIS On server B i have my hMailServer running. Now i know SMTP virtual server plays a role in here but where should it be configured, on Server A or Server B, to remember that on server A i have a smtp virtual server running for incoming emails. But most importantly i want to know how an email travels from A to B in order to trigger my faults for better troubleshooting. Note: Both servers are in the same domain Please advise...
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Hi guys, I have been struggling around configuring outgoing email settings in sharepoint, don't feel sorry for me this is the life i have chosen. I'm tired of beating myself down with settings that i'm not sure if they gonna work. Somebody told me not to guess but understand the flow first and i think that was a smart advice. So having said that i'd like to know when an email alert message is generated by a sharepoint site, what's the path it takes until it gets delivered to an email server. Who are the middle players that take part until the message is delivered to an email server and what are the positions of this middle players? and the only middle player that i can think of here is smtp virtual server which comes along with iis. Now here is my scenario: On Server A i have SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration running and IIS On server B i have my hMailServer running. Now i know SMTP virtual server plays a role in here but where should it be configured, on Server A or Server B, to remember that on server A i have a smtp virtual server running for incoming emails. But most importantly i want to know how an email travels from A to B in order to trigger my faults for better troubleshooting. Note: Both servers are in the same domain Please advise...
It shouldn't matter where you set your SMTP server up (but make sure it will handle outgoing mails!). If you have the SMTP setup on Server B then you set the outgoing mail SMTP server in Central Services to Server A. Something else to note is the email address that SharePoint emails are to be sent from. SharePoint will fail to send an email out (even if the SMTP settings are correct) if the outgoing email address is not a real email address. One final thing to not is, when you set the settings for outgoing mail it does not always update individual web application settings. These can be checked in Central Services too (i believe under the Applications tab). check you settings have filtered throgh. If you are still stuck, please let me know what server your SMTP Server is on and post a screenshot of your current settings in Central Admin and i will try and help further. I hope this helps
modified on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:22 PM
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It shouldn't matter where you set your SMTP server up (but make sure it will handle outgoing mails!). If you have the SMTP setup on Server B then you set the outgoing mail SMTP server in Central Services to Server A. Something else to note is the email address that SharePoint emails are to be sent from. SharePoint will fail to send an email out (even if the SMTP settings are correct) if the outgoing email address is not a real email address. One final thing to not is, when you set the settings for outgoing mail it does not always update individual web application settings. These can be checked in Central Services too (i believe under the Applications tab). check you settings have filtered throgh. If you are still stuck, please let me know what server your SMTP Server is on and post a screenshot of your current settings in Central Admin and i will try and help further. I hope this helps
modified on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:22 PM
Hi Iday86, I have read your post and it's very detailed, i appreciated that but still i just want to consult if what i'm about to do is correct: use the windows IIS SMTP on the machine with sharepoint installed and point the windows IIS SMTP service to my hMailServer installation Please advise... "pursuit of knowledge under difficulties...once UTPIAN soldier, a soldier forever"
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Hi Iday86, I have read your post and it's very detailed, i appreciated that but still i just want to consult if what i'm about to do is correct: use the windows IIS SMTP on the machine with sharepoint installed and point the windows IIS SMTP service to my hMailServer installation Please advise... "pursuit of knowledge under difficulties...once UTPIAN soldier, a soldier forever"
Hi hellboy_83, I have never actually setup ISS SMTP but i have been installations where this has been setup. As long as the IIS SMTP server is configured correctly (i.e. pointed to your hMailServer) this should be ok to be used as the SMTP server in WSS. Cheers, LDay86
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Hi hellboy_83, I have never actually setup ISS SMTP but i have been installations where this has been setup. As long as the IIS SMTP server is configured correctly (i.e. pointed to your hMailServer) this should be ok to be used as the SMTP server in WSS. Cheers, LDay86
Thank you Iday, I think too that should work... Regards, "pursuit of knowledge under difficulties...once UTPIAN soldier, a soldier forever"