We recently migrated our company e-mails to Microsoft Exchange-Server, and we had many automations that used the old server address and ports, plus not using SSL/TLS.
So when we migrated, the server configurations were no longer valid for the e-mails, and we didn't have any source material on how to properly connect to Exchange-Server to automate mails.
I found this documentation on the web, of a similar stack-trace to mine, that had the SMTP Server and ports for configuration.
Using these configurations i was able to succesfully send automated mails through PDI normally like before.
This was done using PDI 7.0.0.0-25
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I am looking to setup a CardDAV server which will sync my contacts from a database to a client device using a standard protocol.
I am currently using ASP.net for web and MSSQL 2008 for the backend, now I want to develop an access point where the user can directly add a server url and authentication details to sync the contacts.
I am looking for a CardDAV server which will work with my current setup. Please help me to find the standard solution, all the current CardDAV servers are in PHP and MySQL .
I have a VPS purchased from godaddy runs CentOS 6.6 and I have more than 150 Joomla websites hosted onto this. I have maximum smtp relays alloted from godaddy that is 2000 for now. I am running out of SMTP relays due to some php scripts sending out emails alot and my email queue has lacks of emails to be sent. Earlier, I was also receiving many emails to the address like abc#xyz.com where xyz.com is hosted on my server but abc is not a user/email. In this case my server was sending bounce backs which was utilizing my relays. I have resolved this issue by rejecting such emails for which user is not availabel at the time of smtp check. This solved the problem a bit. But now, everyday a new php file send lot of emails out and utilizes all of my smtp relays. I delete such files everytime I detect this issue but there is not any permanant solution I got yet. Anybody please help me stop this at server level, not for particular website.
You can resolve this issues by disabling php mail function on your server and For the site mail, you will have to use SMTP authentication for your all site so that no one can send mail using any scripts.
I want to fetch the attachments present in the documents of a view in Lotus Notes Application and send them to sql table, can we do that?
Is there any limitations on connecting Domino server and SQL server (eg. they should be present in same lan etc.?)
Yes, you can for instance create a Java agent that uses the MySQL JDBC driver to connect to MySQL. You can then process the required documents and attachments.
Keith Strickland has blogged about using XPages and Java to connect to MySQL. Perhaps this an be useful for you.
The Domino server obviously needs to be able to connect to the MySQL server in terms of network access and authorization to use the MySQL server.
I have an ASP.NET 4 application that has been in production for years running on Windows Server 2008 R2. It sends email, and is currently configured to send to a specific SmartHost.
I would like to eliminate the dependency on that SmartHost server (it might be going away). As I see it, I have two options:
Find another SmartHost - possibly in the cloud? Which concerns me because it's another point of failure and dependency.
Install & configure SMTP server on the same box as the application. I'm not wild about installing the 'IIS6-bits' that seem necessary to do this.
What's the best practice here? Are folks using external servers via SmartHost more or are you installing local SMTP servers?
I have chosen option 2, because, as you wrote, this eliminates another point of failure, namely the network path between your server and the smart host. Administering a send only mail server is not a big deal. I set up a local send only mail server about two years ago, and except an upgrade I did not do anything with it. Even the upgrade was not strictly necessary. I have to add that I was not completely new to configuring a mail server, and we already had a second mail server, giving additional safety.
On the other hand I have no experience with the SMTP server included in IIS (I only tried it once, several years ago, without success, and gave it up immediately), and I also found then that the choice of open source mail servers on Windows is limited.
I don't see anything wrong with IIS6 SMTP Server although I've only used it to relay to another SmartHost (GMail) and not had it send mail itself. It's a little tricky to set up but not that hard and has worked well for me.
Note: The IIS bits are still there even in Server 2012 and although deprecated Microsoft has provided no replacement. See my thoughts on What replaces IIS SMTP server in Windows Server 2012 on ServerFault.
I'd recommend using both IIS6 bits in conjunction with an external SmartHost (I use Gmail) for the benefits in the above referenced ServerFault answer of mine. I would think that setting up your own SMTP server is going to end up being more complicated and you may risk being blacklisted if you're not careful.
I deployed my web app to our production IIS 6.0 server and everything is working except when my code attempts to send email to an address that is NOT in the domain of our email server. I've seen various symptoms but this seems the most straightforward to describe:
Syntax error in parameters or arguments. The server response was: 5.7.1 This system is not configured to relay mail
My web app getting this error msg uses System.Net.Mail. It resides along with the older web app it is supposed to replace which uses System.Web.Mail. There is one SMTP server on this same machine that seems to require some new configuration regarding relay.
Checking the SMTP server properties showed nothing configured for "Relay Restrictions". The older production web app sends email without errors with the SMTP server configured as described.
So, in summary, does use of System.Net.Mail require something different for relaying email than System.Web.Mail?
The web.config for the newer version that has relay issues contains:
<system.net><mailSettings><smtp><network host="mail.cbmiweb.com" port="25"/></smtp>
I used the values above for all my testing (first on my localhost with XP IIS 5.1; then on a staging IIS 6.0 server in our LAN) and never had any "relay" problems.
The web.config for the older version using System.Web.Mail contains nothing related to SMTP!
If I suddenly need a username and password added to the smtp setting above, how come I never needed "credentials" during development?
I don't know much about SMTP and really don't even know what to ask the mail server administrator. I am very confused about what to do...thanks.
Sounds to me like the old app is sending the message directly to the recipients server and is bypassing your local mail server completely. This would have happened because your app would not have had a mail server to use configured, so it defaults back to trying to send the mail itself.
This is usually a bad idea as it can cause delays in your application depending on the recipients mail server configuration (we're talking seconds here). Further if you aren't configured to deal with things like grey lists, etc, then you can have a high number of emails that you think was sent, but never really arrived.
You should ask the mail server administrator to properly configure your local mail server to allow relaying from your machine.
OR (and this is the more secure way)
You should set up a user on your local mail server and have your app use those login credentials when attempting to send email.
The systemnetmail.com site might be helpful. Specifically the page on smtp configuration.