w2k smtp server

ctll

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that's what i thought, BUT...

XIMS: Default Directories Created by Internet Information Server SMTP Installation

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

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SUMMARY
After you install the SMTP Protocol Stack for Windows 2000, five new subfolder are created under the Mailroot folder for message processing. The default location of the Mailroot folder is root:\Inetpub\Mailroot, but you can designate a different location during setup.



MORE INFORMATION
The five new subfolders are:

Badmail
Stores undeliverable messages that cannot be returned to the sender.


Drop
Receives all incoming messages for all of the domains hosted on the computer. You can assign any directory to be the Drop directory, except one that has already been designated as the Pickup directory.


Pickup
Processes outgoing messages that are created as text files and copied to the directory. When properly formatted Request for Comments (RFC) 822 messages are copied into the Pickup directory, the SMTP Service initiates delivery.


Queue
Holds messages for delivery. If a message cannot be delivered because the connection is busy or down, the message is stored in the queue and sent again at designated intervals.


SortTemp
The SortTemp directory, stores temporary files.



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blstriker

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Sure you can recieve messages. I have it running on w2k adv server now. All mail directed to your server on port 25 gets dumped into c:\inetpub\mailroot\drop\. The problem is that you need microsoft exchange server (big bucks) to distribute that mail through POP to individual users. What I do is just double click on the message and then outlook express opens the message. If you have other people who get mail at your server or domain, then i guess this wouldn't work out so well.

For example, all mail directed at www.road2md.com goes to my server. It shows up in the directory as something unintelligeable like: 0097dsf097234osdf897aser. But i can still read it and reply using outlook.

Hope this helps.
 

ctll

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cool, that's all i wanna do....

i d/l'd pegasus and mercury (good mail freeware), but don't feel like getting into them cuz i'm still not qualified on w2k. (i have adv srv too)((which i wouldn't have if it wasn't for the hot deals forum here) the one here that has/had the arbitrator that banned me as ctl)(that %^%$^&$%&(%*%^*))
 

Akash

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i got this bad ass program off beta news yesterday. its sambar and it has mail server and thta runs fine on win2k..