Re: Newbie: How Do I Use An External SMTP Server?

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From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:55:26 GMT

On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:55:58 -0400, "Andy"
<andy.mcvicker@siemens-nospam.com> wrote:

>Our network administrator does not want to install the IIS SMTP server on
>our intranet. He want me to use our existing SMTP server
>"mail.smpi.siemens.ca". Can I do this with IIS??

No. IIS is a web server and couldn't care less about email. Using
ASP, ASP.NET or a number of other scripting langauges you can easily
send email from a web page, but how depends on what you're doing and
what you're programming in.

Jeff

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