Gmail allows you to define multiple “send as” addresses. So if you want to use your GMail account but send email from You@YourCustomDomain.com, this can be supported. But, to support this you need to have a server set up that will relay the SMTP mail for you. For security reasons Google won’t allow you to […]
Configuring Microsoft’s SMTP Service to allow relay
My recent post on Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008 helps people get up-and-running with a local SMTP service to support the sending of emails from code (i.e.: C# Sample For Sending Emails). Just getting the SMTP service running though is only the first step – the default installation actually WON’T […]
Hosting, IIS, server, smtpInstalling the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008
The most popular blog post on my site is how to send email to ASP.NET (C# code sample). It seems that a recurring question/comment on that post though is from people with issues with the code being rejected when trying to relay email through “localhost” (an assumed running local SMTP service). So, here’s a post […]
Hosting, IIS, server, smtp