Windows – IIS 6 SMTP Configuration

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I'm having a problem setting up IIS 6's SMTP service. I configured it with the options that made the most sense to me (I have zero IIS experience) and no mail is being sent. I telnetted into the server from its own command prompt, queued a message for delivery, and nothing happened. I looked through the server logs and was unable to find anything.

I appreciate that this is a very vague, general question but I'm honestly not sure where to start. Are there any quick options I should take a look at first before moving to more advanced configuration issues?

TIA.

EDIT: Logs
This is the content of the logfile for the session:

2009-09-02 20:40:27 127.0.0.1 – SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 HELO – ++1270.0.0.1 501 0 27 18 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:31 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 HELO – +jack 250 0 44 9 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:39 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 helmail – +MAIL+FROM+benjy@vavictory09.org 500 0 32 47 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:47 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 MAIL – – 501 0 28 4 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:50 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 MAIL – – 501 0 0 9 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:50 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 MAIL – +FROM 501 0 35 9 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:52 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 MAIL – – 501 0 0 10 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:40:52 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 MAIL – +FROM+ 501 0 35 10 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:41:44 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 MAIL – +FROM:+benjy@vavictory09.org 250 0 46 32 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:41:49 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 RCPT – +TO:+benjy@vavictory09.org 250 0 34 30 0 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:41:52 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 DATA – 250 0 133 16 2171 SMTP – – – –
2009-09-02 20:41:55 127.0.0.1 jack SMTPSVC2 JACK 127.0.0.1 0 QUIT – jack 240 92890 69 4 0 SMTP – – – –

EDIT: Telnet session
220 jack.vavictory09.org Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:15:02 -0400
HELO jack
250 jack.vavictory09.org Hello [127.0.0.1]
MAIL FROM: benjy@vavictory09.org
250 2.1.0 benjy@vavictory09.org....Sender OK
RCPT TO: benjy@vavictory09.org
250 2.1.5 benjy@vavictory09.org
DATA
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
test test test
.
250 2.6.0 <JACKRqf69aZbLAX3cf300000006@jack.vavictory09.org> Queued mail for delivery
quit
221 2.0.0 jack.vavictory09.org Service closing transmission channel


Connection to host lost.

Best Answer

Do you have logging set up for the SMTP site? If so, there has to be something in the log file from your telnet session.