How to admin smtp service with vbscript

Hi:

I need to admin the smtp service in two remote servers in my company. I
like to verify if the service is active, I don't need to send mail,
only to verify the service is running.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks everybody...

Gerald
Wed Jan 25 06:15:40 CST 2006

lhsebas@yahoo.es wrote:
> I need to admin the smtp service in two remote servers in my company. I
> like to verify if the service is active, I don't need to send mail,
> only to verify the service is running.

Well, that pretty much depends on how you define "service is running".

1. You could check if you can connect to port 25. Does not mean though
that is it responing properly.
2. You could check if you can connect to port 25 and send a test mail.
Does not mean though that the service delivers anything (which is
usually what people expect from a "running" smtp service). Thus:
3. You should try to send a test email through the servers and see if
you receive them. Then you know that the smtp server at least delivers
something and hopefully is running properly.

Gerald

Twilight
Fri Jan 27 05:00:55 CST 2006

Hi Gerald:

Yes, is true. Maybe I'd need send and receive an email to confirm the
service is running properly.

Ok... I'm really new writing scripts and I don't know if I can send an
email to an external mail account (outside my Exchange organization)
from a vbscript. Something like those mail servers that answer
automatically to every received email.

Thanks,
Henry