If you want to configure additional security to the localhost IIS 6.0 server you would set it here and match the same authentication in the IIS 6.0 GUI.

Enable SMTP Service:

1. Go to Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Server Manager
2. Click on the Features item in the navigation pane
3. Click the Add Features link to start the wizard
4. Scroll down the list to the SMTP Server, and check the box. The Required Role Services dialog will appear, listing all of the dependencies that the SMTP server depends on to operate. Click Add Required Role Services.
5. Click Next twice
6. Review the list of available IIS Role Services and check any that you would like to add
7. Click Next then click Install

Once the SMTP Server service is installed, the IIS 6.0 virtual server technology is activated, and the IIS 6.0 administration snap-in will now be active.

Configure IIS 6.0 to Relay Outbound Email to Aritic Mail

1. Go to Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > IIS 6.0 Manager
2. Right click on the SMTP Virtual Server #1 and select the Properties option
3. Click the box to enable logging section to assist you in configuring the server
4. Click on Properties and check the box to activate Use Local Time For File Naming And Rollover option
5. Click on the Advanced tab and check the following items: Date, Time, Client IP Address, User Name, Service Name, Server Name, Server IP Address, Server Port, Method, Protocol Status, Bytes Sent, Protocol Version, and Host.
6. Click OK
7. Click on the Access tab then click the Relay button in the Relay Restrictions section
8. Click Add, enter 127.0.0.1 and click OK. The IP will appear in the list with Access Granted
9. Click OK Only The List Below radio button and enter 127.0.0.1 in the IP address field.
10. Click on OK to return to the Access tab as shown in the previous screenshots.
11. Select the Delivery tab and click the Outbound Security button
12. Click on Basic Authentication where the Username will be your Ariticmail.com username and the password will be your Ariticmail.com password
13. Click OK
14. Click the Advanced button
15. In the Smart host field: enter mail.ariticmail.com
16. Click on OK twice and you can close the IIS 6.0 admin MMC

Configure Domains

At this point, you will need to configure an SMTP domain that relays messages to Aritic Mail. Please follow Microsoft’s instructions.

Testing Your New Configuration

First, let’s test using Telnet. Open up a telnet client within Windows. You do that in the Command Prompt by entering the following:

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telnet localhost 25

Now, with telnet running, enter the following commands just as you see them, pressing ENTER for each new line (if configured correctly, the server won’t do anything until you enter the period):

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EHLO yourdomain.com
MAIL FROM: test@yourdomain.com
RCPT TO: recipient@anotherdomain.com
DATA
This is a test email for Ariticmail operations.
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The EHLO command with your domain inserted tells the mail server which domain it will be sending from. The MAIL FROM: command is a standard MIME entry for that inserts the email address of the sender. The RCPT TO: command tells the server to which address to send the message. The DATA command tells the server that the next incoming information is the body of the message. Finally, after the data is entered, the period (.) tells the server you are done. When you press Enter, it will send the message. It’s quite nice to have servers to handle all this mess, isn’t it!

If these manually entered commands work, then you should have the following success code returned:

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250….Queued mail for delivery

You can also test using the logging feature we had you activate earlier. You can view the logs by navigating to and opening the IIS 6.0 7.5 log files with a text editor. It will probably be under the C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles directory unless you changed the log file location during installation.

Notice, highlighted in blue below, that the server sent an email and that it went through various OutboundConnectionCommand and Outbound ConnectionResponse steps. These along with the information of the various stages of EHLO, AUTH, MAIL, RCPT, DATA and quit that the email was sent successfully.

Finally, you can confirm that your configuration is working by logging into our site. Login into our web UI using your Ariticmail credentials. On the main Dashboard tab you will see a list of messages that were recently sent through our service. This number should increment by one each time you either use telnet to send an email or you use a ASP.NET test script.