Hi All
Was just wondering if anyone can assist with setting up a sharepoint
installation for email alerting.
I'm no export but have had this dumped on me so any assistance would
be greatly appreciated. I'll explain my scenario.
I have a single windows 2008 server with sharepoint installed. I have
been able to extend the site to have an external
internet facing site and have found out how to set up forms based
authentication for these users. There is a database which contains
usernames,
passwords and email addresses. We purchased a domain name and have
had the DNS settings changed to point to our external IP address.
We have a linux based Firewall and I have created a dmz area for the
webserver to sit in with only one port open. The sharepoint ssl port
number
This all appears to be working great.
I want to use our domain host's smtp address to send email. In the
sharepoint central admin siteI have typed in this address and the
sending from
and reply to emailaddress in both outgoing email option and web app
email option. i have also added these details in to IIS 7.0 smtp
server settings.
I have also opened port 25 through firewall. However the alerts are
still not working and I am getting these errors in the log
Event 6858 an error occurred while talking to the smtp host.
Error reading from smtp host
The email address =91xxxx=92 contains illegal characters
Can anyone please explain to me what I need to do in getting this all
working.
Many Thanks