You could indeed use your public server to send e-mails through IIS 6.
Alternatively, you could avoid some security worries if you were to install
the SMTP server on your application server. That way, the SMTP service can
still send messages, but could not accept any connections from the outside.
However, the most secure and most managable solution is to simply configure
your components to send mail to your ISPs SMTP server.
(I do wonder though, if the application server does not need to accept
connections from outside the firewall, why is it in your DMZ?)
--
Sven
"Jim" <e.DeleteThis@e.com> wrote in message
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> I am new to this so excuse my ignorance.....
>
> I have several COM+ components sat on an application server that sits in a
> DMZ, it is not publicly accessable from the outside world and it is only
> used to process requests from an asp.net site hosted in IIS6.0, now one of
> the COM+ components requires access to an SMTP server to send emails when
> users perform certain tasks.
>
> So the question is can I install an SMTP sever in IIS 6.0 on the public
> facing web server?
>
> Is this a common way to send emails?
>
> Is there anything special I have to do to get this to work?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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