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Setting Up a Mail server

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:50 am
by DirtRider
Hello All,

Well I have Windows XP running as my web server with Apache 2.2.8 and PHP. This is an internal SMF forum for my company. Now I need to be able to have the forum send out mails as required. Unfortunately I have no idea where to start with this. The forum has the ability to use PHP mail or SMTP mail.

I desperately need help with this please :cry: If this is in the incorrect area my apologies in advance :D

Re: Setting Up a Mail server

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:19 am
by tawfiq
When you said internal does it mean you can only access the forum through a LAN and not WAN? Without knowing much about mail server or how they work all I can say is you have to have your server set up so it can send emails to outside client machines (PCs). So, I presume the first task would be make your mail server connected to the Internet.

My two cent :D

Re: Setting Up a Mail server

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:27 am
by DirtRider
Yes it is behind the firewall so you can only get to it via the LAN. Not all users have assess to the internet via the network. So I need it to send mail to the members that are using Outlook MAPI mail format.

I was jumping my mail off a SMTP domain as a gateway within the company but this has now been cut off. I did this by using my network login user name and password and using the SMTP Server option in my server setup from SMF "mail.co.uk" This was a bit of a mission as each month I would have to change the details in SMF to match my new password.