Setting up email capability on a VPC image

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I sent the email below to the VPC newsgroup but was told that this really had

nothing to do with VPC specifically, but had more to do with how to setup a

lone server that could send email to itself (like for doing labs etc where

the student only has one machine and not networking capability).

 

Here is that email:

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I have a vpc image created with VPC 2007. It is:

 

Windows 2003 Standard SP2 with all the latest patches (named DEMOAPPSERVER)

SMTP

POP3

IIS

Office 2007 Professional

Visual Studio 2005

SQL 2005

MOSS

 

I just login as Administrator so there are no other users on the machine.

 

What I want to be able to do is send an email to

Administrator@demoappserver.com. So here is what I did:

 

SMTP

1. Installed SMTP

2. Enabled Logging.

3. Set Relay Restrictions to ‘Only the list below’ to grant ‘127.0.0.1’.

4. In my domains list I see ‘demoappserver Local(default).

 

POP3

1. Installed POP3

2. Had to create a new domain so I called this ‘demoappserver’. In this

domain I created a mailbox for the Administrator. Unfortunately, now I see a

second ‘demoappserver’ in my SMTP domains list.

 

I then go into Outlook and create an email account pointing to POP3. My

‘Incoming mail server’ is set to localhost (also tried demoappserver) and the

‘Outgoing mail server’ is localhost (also tried demoappserver). When I test

the account settings, it shows logging into the POP server and sending the

email a success. If I go to the C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Queue directory, I can

see where message is dropped in but eventually it goes to the Badmail

directory.

 

So at this point, I’ve been pulling my hair out. Anyone with any idea on

what I am missing here?

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So, my questions would be here, does this server need to be a domain

controller in order to be able to do something like this? And if I make it a

domain controller, what do I have to do then to get this to work?

 

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Thanks.

 

STom