SMTP on Windows/IIS update

[Mick Weiss]

Thomas, Steve wrote:

>The PHP mailer works fine on the same exact box, so the issue is not a firewall/permissions problem.
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>This is a highly, highly secure environment so Sendmail daemons are not allowed to exist here :-).
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ROTFL. Thats why you use Windows / IIS. Which has a great history of 
security. ;-)

good luck w/ that.

- Mick

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>I'll keep looking into it and let you know how it goes...
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>Steve.
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>From: developers-owner at bugzilla.org on behalf of Habers, Mark
>Sent: Fri 8/19/2005 1:31 PM
>To: developers at bugzilla.org
>Subject: Re: SMTP on Windows/IIS update
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>Hi Steve,
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>This is probably a support issue that eventually one of the developers here is going to request we take to that forum... I have a similar setup as you though and would offer the following suggestion. Talk to your exchange people and make sure that the SMTP server you are using is trusted to relay email to Exchange. In all but the most insecure environments, Exchange will not accept email from just any server on the WAN that happens to be running SMTP. I have 30 different SMTP boxes available here that I can use to relay my email from BugZilla. A fraction of those servers are actually trusted by Exchange to route said email to the corporate Exchange system. I also do not receive any errors on the BugZilla side when I point to an SMTP box that is not trusted. I believe you are having the same issue. I would start there before rewriting anything... To test this theory, identify another SMTP box on your network that is already able to send out email to your users, employees, etc!
> .. and piggy back on that one instead. If your email starts working, the problem is at hand. If you don't have another SMTP box available that you know is sending email successfully, you will have to get your Exchange people to add your box as trusted and go from there... You'll probably want to do that anyway just to stay out of trouble and to keep from having to revisit this problem again down the road. Just my 2 cents..
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>Mark
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>From: Thomas, Steve [mailto:developers-owner at bugzilla.org] On Behalf Of Thomas, Steve
>Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:46 PM
>To: developers at bugzilla.org
>Subject: SMTP on Windows/IIS update
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>Hey folks,
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>I'm still trying to get this to work. Since I am a PHP programmer (actually my background includes almost everything *except* Perl), doing what seems to be required--rewriting the SMTP code--is not a good option for me. As such I wrote a PHP script to send an email (a one-liner) and my plan is to have BugMail simply call the script using HTTP. 
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>I still have no clue as to why the original code doesn't work. When I switch to using localhost directly and turn on the local SMTP server, I do in fact see the mail messages gather in the outbound queue, but they go nowhere from there. When I talk directly to the corporate SMTP server (which is Exchange, which is probably the problem overall), it just sucks up the mail message with no errors at all (or at least none that I get to see given the SMTP code).
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>Thinking I could just drop in the open() call to the PHP script would be easy is turning out to be wrong as well. Given the sendmail roots (apparently) of the Bugzilla mail functionality deriving what you need for a normal mail interface (from, to, subject, message) is actually pretty hard for somebody with little Perl experience. Somebody that actually knows what they are doing could probably write me such a snippet in about 5 minutes, but oh well.
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>If anybody has any other tricks I might pull to get the current SMTP code working with an MS exchange server, that would be splendid. Note that (as implied above) PHP's built-in mailer seems to have no problem sending mail to our servers.
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>Thanks,
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>Steve Thomas
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