IIS6 cdo.message cannot send emails access denied error

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Got some very basic email code on a iis 6 server to send a test email. Relay is enabled on exchange server for this server, the iis user has write permissions to the directories for mailroot and all its subfolders, and yet we still get this blasted error still.

CDO.Message.1 error
'80070005' Access
is denied. /email.asp, line 42

I don't see any files in the pickup folder, there are files in the queue folder however. Any ideas what else I should look at?

The code on Line 42 is myMail.Send

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Found the problem, it was permissions to the SMTP service. The IIS user nor did system have access to that. We added that and it is working now.

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TLS just enables encryption on the smtp session and doesn't directly affect whether or not Postfix will be allowed to relay a message.

The relaying denied message occurs because the smtpd_recipient_restrictions rules was not matched. One of those conditions must be fulfilled to allow the message to go through:

smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
    permit_sasl_authenticated
    check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/filtered_domains
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To explain those rules:

permit_sasl_authenticated

permits authenticated senders through SASL. This will be necessary to authenticate users outside of your network which are normally blocked.

check_recipient_access

This will cause postfix to look in /etc/postfix/filtered_domains for rules based on the recipient address. (Judging by the file name on the file name, it is probably just blocking specific domains... Check to see if gmail.com is listed in there?)

permit_mynetworks

This will permit hosts by IP address that match IP ranges specified in $mynetworks. In the main.cf you posted, $mynetworks was set to 127.0.0.1, so it will only relay emails generated by the server itself.

Based on that configuration, your mail client will need to use SMTP Authentication before being allowed to relay messages. I'm not sure what database SASL is using. That is specified in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf Presumably it also uses the same database as your virtual mailboxes, so you should be able enable SMTP authentication in your mail client and be all set.

Getting the error “SMTP server cannot create a file in the queue directory C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Queue\”

[SOLVED] Hi guys,

In the event that, like me, somebody else comes across this page trying to find an answer..

I had the exact same problem using Virtual SMTP server on an XP x64 box with 4GB ram and plenty of disk space so I knew it was not a resource issue. I tried adding various directory security settings (including everybody with full control to the Inetpub directory and it's subdirectories).

I was about to wipe and reinstall IIS completely but on a whim I just removed the SMPT server component and reinstalled. It began working again straight away.

Hope this info can help somebody else Moz

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Getting the error “SMTP server cannot create a file in the queue directory C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Queue\”

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