A bit about the setup then I'll go on.
It is a local network attached to the web.
Machine one is the Web Server and has XP Pro, is serving the website with IIS and also serving Community Server 2.1 personal edition with just the Photo Gallery enabled.
Machine 2 is the mail server, and is running Windows 98' SE and ArGoSoft Pro mail server.
The email server is set up for SMTP authorization using POP3 settings, and I made a user for the CS server mail.
I set up CS for the IP address of the mail server, enabled mail, and entered the user name and password I made for the CS user I made on the mail server as the SMTP info.
I am testing it by going under "settings" as an administration of CS and sending a bulk mail to myself.
Watching things work, I see this string at the mail server:
Start SMTP * Requested connection with XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX * Error: [10054] Connection reset by peer * END SMTP >Got that, You need to use the domain Name of the server. Edited 4/12
So, now that I have that set right, CS opens a connection to the SMTP sever, and closes it. That's it, nothing else. Doesn't try and log on or anything.
OK, so what am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Ron
Kinda dissapointed with this "community", not one response! Well, what do you want for free <shrug>.
I will share though in the hopes that someone will benefit. After hours of isolating things, here is what I came up with:
The info I put in the Admin Username and Password did not match the info I had made on the Email Server account.
You do not have to use an open relay setting on your email server as is suggested in other threads. I have my server, (ArGoSoft Pro) set for SMTP authorization (so my server can't be used by spammers as an open relay), and to use POP Account settings. So, I set up a separate account and password for CS to use.
The CS-Administrator's email information is what CS uses to mail contact users. So if your server is using POP account info to authorize SMTP access, you must have an account made that you can use. Example: CS_account@xxx.xxx would be the account name and the CS-Administrators email info.
In CS-Email Settings: For the SMTP server addy, I was actually able to use either my ,correct <wink>, local network IP address or the Domain name XXX.XXX. I suspect that if your CS and Mail server are on the same machine, or you are using a rented server, you may want to just use the domain name.
In CS-Email settings: I checked SMTP login was required.
In CS-Email settings: For the SMTP account information I used the Admin Email account I created on the server, and entered as my Admin info. You may or may not have to use the CS_account@xxx.xxx format for the user name, depends on your server software an what it likes.
In CS-Email setting: I entered the port as 25, even thought it said you didn't have to.
CD-Contacts: Information in the Contact accounts does not have to actually be the same as the Admin account. The Admin email info in CS-Contacts is the address that will show up in the "From" box on the email. I have not tried a false address, but when I used another valid user name on the Server, it showed that user as the sender. So for clarity later, I set it to the Admin account info.
Hope that helps somebody.
Nothing, no response at all?
Really?
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