II6 SMTP mail is being held up in queue

Greetings,

I have a DC with IIS 6 and SMTP installed. All settings are default.

I am using a 3rd party application that sends email out via localhost
SMTP. Everytime the mail is sent it gets held up in the outbox. If I
reboot the server all the mail will send. However restarting IIS or
SMTP doesn't do anything. This is strange.

If I drop a text file email into the Pickup folder it too, gets held up
in the queue.
Has anyone seen this or can advise me how to unstick my SMTP queue?

Thanks!

Raoul
Wed Sep 20 14:45:57 CDT 2006

I should also point out the 3rd party app uses CDO to send emails via
ASP. I found a few posts similar to mine. One suggests using ASPEmail
but we are looking for IIS6/SMTP solution. This seems like a problem
that should have a Microsoft fix or workaround.

Thanks

Steve
Mon Sep 25 21:38:23 CDT 2006

I would verify the permissions are setup correctly and run SMTPDiag to help
diagnose any MX or DNS issues. Is your ISP blocking port 25?

http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2006/09/25/SMTPDiag-_2D00_-troubleshooting-email-issues.aspx

Tx,

Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP - IIS



"Raoul" <krakowski@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> I have a DC with IIS 6 and SMTP installed. All settings are default.
>
> I am using a 3rd party application that sends email out via localhost
> SMTP. Everytime the mail is sent it gets held up in the outbox. If I
> reboot the server all the mail will send. However restarting IIS or
> SMTP doesn't do anything. This is strange.
>
> If I drop a text file email into the Pickup folder it too, gets held up
> in the queue.
> Has anyone seen this or can advise me how to unstick my SMTP queue?
>
> Thanks!
>