Re: Unable to send SMTP email using IIS 5.0 SMTP

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From: Philip Wang (PhilipWang_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:39:05 -0700

Hi Gafvert,

Yes. IISLockdown was previously used to tighten the security of this IIS
server as well. I have uninstalled URLScan and rerun IISLockdown to restore
back the meta data, previous configurations, etc. But the problem still
occurs. Since then I have not installed IISLockdown on this server.

On the test server, I tried to run the IISLockdown and realise that if I
remove WebDav, I will also experience the same "Page cannot be found error".

You mentioned about ASP extension is blocked, but I am still able to run
some ASP web based applications developed by my vendor on the server.. is
there anyway to check if ASP is still blocked? could there be something else?

Thanks.

"Kristofer Gafvert" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "Page could not be found" means that the page could not be found. This means
> that it did not even get to the SMTP server, and the problem cannot be SMTP.
>
> Is URLScan or other security tools installed on this server? Is it possible
> that the asp extension is blocked?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kristofer Gafvert
> http://www.ilopia.com
>
>
> "Philip Wang" <Philip Wang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:04A7748D-4886-4395-8008-042CDD9EE1B0@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I just setup a SMTP virtual server which is meant to forward any
> emails
> > to a external Smart Host. The IIS apps is suppose to use CDONTS to send
> the
> > email.
> >
> > The server was hardened before by a former colleague, but I still proceed
> to
> > do a quick test to check out if the server is able to send a simple SMTP
> > email to our domain. After running a simple ASP script which is meant to
> send
> > a simple SMTP email, I hit this error : "Page could not be found". The
> > sending of the email just failed.
> >
> > Using the same script, I test it into a test IIS 5.0 server, it is able to
> > send without any problem. I was wondering if there is any security
> hardening
> > technique that can prevent us from sending SMTP emails using CDONTS?
> >
> > Appreciate any help.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
>

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