Testing an Outbound Port from Your Web Host
Recently I decided to install the WP Mail SMTP plugin into a WordPress blog to get around the shared server being blacklisted. The idea is to get WordPress to send …
SMTP Smarthost to Office 365 and Gmail
I use the Windows SMTP service to relay some mail to Office 365 and, from another site, to Google Apps Gmail. Here are some notes and links on both.
Windows SMTP Service Not Sending Messages
On a Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine, I set up the SMTP service with a smart host to relay messages. The setup was identical to a working setup at another …
Office 365 SMTP Relay: What KB2600912 Doesn’t Tell You
Yesterday I was trying to set up Office 365 to relay email messages from Line-of-Business applications. I was following the smart-host method described in Microsoft KB2600912: How to set up …
Exchange 2007 SMTP TLS Error Oddly Resolves Itself
I noticed that my SBS 2008 Server was generating 70 or 80 of these errors every day since May 30:
Testing SMTP Using Telnet
I’m trying out a hosted anti-spam solution. This service works by becoming my public-facing mail server (DNS MX record), and relaying non-spam mail to the mail server in my office. …