Applications/Scheduled Tasks on an Exchange Server

3 Oct 2007 10:55 PM

Schmiddy98

I am writing a small application that will email to people who
registered with us on my company's website but have not completed a
profile to remind them to do so. This would be a scheduled task that
would run once per day. I don't want to allow relaying through our
Exchange server, so I will need to place the app on that server. Is
there any complications to placing apps like this on an Exchange
server?

4 Oct 2007 5:15 AM

Ed Crowley [MVP]

It doesn't matter where the application resides, if it uses Exchange's SMTP
virtual server to send mail to external recipients, then it's relaying.
You'll need to have it authenticate, or you could open relay to its IP
address. Another alternative might be to install the IIS SMTP Service on
the server (not Exchange) running the application and use that service to
send mail directly to the Internet, skipping the Exchange server entirely
except for mail destined to it.

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Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

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"Schmiddy98" <schmidlko***@aggienetwork.com> wrote in message
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>I am writing a small application that will email to people who
> registered with us on my company's website but have not completed a
> profile to remind them to do so. This would be a scheduled task that
> would run once per day. I don't want to allow relaying through our
> Exchange server, so I will need to place the app on that server. Is
> there any complications to placing apps like this on an Exchange
> server?
>