IISinformation.com » SMTP http://www.iisinformation.com All Things IIS Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 SMTP and Vista http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-vista/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-vista/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:07 +0000 admin When using IIS7 and vista you may find yourself without a local smtp server.

To get around that there are a few free smtp services you can use.

Free SMTP Server
http://softstack.com/freesmtp.html

Smartermail – Free for one domain.
http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterMail/Free.aspx

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PaperCut

http://papercut.codeplex.com/

both are a bit difficult to use (free one is an app) the smartermail is a full blown server solution.

]]> http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-vista/feed/ 0 SMTP and IIS on Vista and Windows 7 http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-iis-on-vista-and-windows-7/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-iis-on-vista-and-windows-7/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:45:07 +0000 admin http://iisinformation.strongerweb.com/?p=4 As the developers progress with using Vista people are finding some things that need to be addressed.

One of the items left out of vista is an SMTP server.  In XP and older operating systems you can have this installed with IIS.  However, vista does not include an smtp server.

You have a few options out there to download (http://softstack.com/freesmtp.html) or (http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterMail/Free.aspx)

The most recent into is a project called papercut on codeplex.  This is my favorite for development. http://papercut.codeplex.com/ It receives messages but does not send them.  So you can just locally view your emails.

Steve (Steve Schofield) has a good post discussing this.  I wish I would have done a search before I started looking all over vista to find the app to install.

I am interested to hear the logic on why SMTP was not even an option or a downloadable option for Vista.  This may make it difficult for some developers to use their local machine

UPDATE (2010) – if you need a temporary fix for development try http://papercut.codeplex.com/

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