Iis – Is the IIS SMTP Server good enough for a production server

There are probably a number of ways to do this, but I'm thinking that if you configure the SMTP server to use a smart host for delivery and plug in a bogus ip address that will keep it from being able to deliver any emails. I'm not sure if it will cause the SMTP server to move the emails to the badmail folder or not, but at the end of the day it will keep the emails from being delivered and they'll be available to you regardless of the folder they're in.

There are a couple solutions. If you explicitly set the pickup folder in code then it doesn't need to be gotten from the metabase and you don't need to worry about the permissions. If you control the code, that's the easiest solution.

However, if you have a lot of users that may want to get the pickup folder automatically, then you'll need to grant the extra permission.

Since it's safe to expose read-only access to the pickup folder path property, the easy solution is to grant the IIS_WPG group access. cscript Metaacl.vbs “IIS://localhost/SMTPsvc” IIS_WPG RE

To answer your question on where it is, SMTP wasn't ported to the new system in IIS7. It still uses the old metabase settings in c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\metabase.xml. You manage it with IIS 6 manager.