Command line SMTP no email address in TO field - Inetserver

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:21:02 -0700, spinkid
<spinkid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am trying to troubleshoot why we can't send emails out our Windows 2003
>SMTP server to email addreses @hotmail.com. They just sit around in the que
>then go to bad mail. So, I tried send an email from the command line and
>they still don't go through to hotmail accounts. However when I send them to
>my exchange account the from has what I put in the comand line however the TO
>field is blank and the return-path is correct. Why isn't the TO field
>showing the email address? I am guessing my problem is becasue I don't have
>a smart host set up in my SMTP services. Can I use my Exchange server for a
>Smart Host? How can I test if the Smart host is working?

You don't need a smart host if your SMTP can directly reach the
destination system. Check the bad mail for reasons, as well as the
SMTP logs.

Jeff

Do you have Symantec Anti-Virus on this server and does it look at your
email? If it does turn it off as this is the reason hotmail is not accepting
your email. Not sure why Hotmail will not accept email from an SMTP server
that is checking to make sure that it doesn't have any viruses. But they
don't.

"Jeff Cochran" wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:21:02 -0700, spinkid
> <spinkid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I am trying to troubleshoot why we can't send emails out our Windows 2003
> >SMTP server to email addreses @hotmail.com. They just sit around in the que
> >then go to bad mail. So, I tried send an email from the command line and
> >they still don't go through to hotmail accounts. However when I send them to
> >my exchange account the from has what I put in the comand line however the TO
> >field is blank and the return-path is correct. Why isn't the TO field
> >showing the email address? I am guessing my problem is becasue I don't have
> >a smart host set up in my SMTP services. Can I use my Exchange server for a
> >Smart Host? How can I test if the Smart host is working?
>
> You don't need a smart host if your SMTP can directly reach the
> destination system. Check the bad mail for reasons, as well as the
> SMTP logs.
>
> Jeff
>