[OT] SendMail in NT

[Gerald Combs]

Sufficiently recent versions of IIS come with an SMTP service.  It has
been installed by default on every 2000 Server machine I've run across.

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, JD Runyan wrote:

> Isn't it amazing that MS provides no SMTP service either through ASP, or as a
> part of its core OS.  I don't mean sendmail quality, I just mean very basic
> to send the mail out without thinking much.  Makes it hard to use as a server
> platform.  All of our webservers have to use a Sun box to send their email out
> from forms and such.
> 
> On Mar 14 16:46, Dustin Decker wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, the utilities that your Message Board software wants don't
> > > run on NT.  Usually, stuff that works with NT is not going to be freeware
> > > (or even reasonably-priced-ware).  It's going to be very opaque, pay for it
> > > and install it before you find out what it does or how it works, and
> > > information is going to be hard to come by.  You may find it easier to do
> > > your work if you can get your hosting transferred to a decent webserver.
> > 
> > Hehe... funny to see this today.  I let someone convince me to make a
> > brain-dead decision to move to IIS since pretty much everything else
> > where I work is M$.  We were doing fine until I tried to attack the
> > concept of simply (?) sending the contents of a form to our sales force
> > from our website.
> > 
> > Well, I certainly never had trouble getting it to work with php - and
> > the moment I send this I'm bringing up a new Apache server... screw the
> > M$ way, and shame on me for having considered it.
> > 
> > Dustin
> > 
> > -- 
> > These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will ,
> > in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the
> > love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have
> > this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
> > 	-- Thomas Paine, 1778
> 
> -- 
> JD Runyan
> Mid-Range Systems Administrator
> USDA NITC Kansas City
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