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kt
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email on localhost - help! - 1/9/2005 9:18:55
I have one major issue left on my site before going live, which is sending emails. I have various pages which I want to send email to various addresses, but need to test it all before going live (I can't afford to go live and then spend ages figuring out how to get the email stuff to work). So...
How do I set up the localhost server to send email? I've been looking through all the posts on this forum and know I need to install IIS (done - I have IIS 5.1) and I know I need Server Extensions installed (done) but that's as far as I've got. I'm using XP Pro and FP2000.
A step by step newbee's guide would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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suzkaw
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RE: email on localhost - help! - 1/9/2005 15:07:41
If you already have a host why not just upload all the files to a new folder and test it from there.
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kt
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RE: email on localhost - help! - 1/10/2005 8:39:20
Thanks for the reply Eric but you'll have to bear with me - totally new to this... I'm not sure what you mean. I have published to the localhost using IIS 5.1 but that's not allowing me to send email. Where do i go from there?
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RE: email on localhost - help! - 1/10/2005 9:50:53
Kt
What Eric means is, why don't you upload it to the host server, rather than relying on your local machine?
But, to setup IIS for email via FrontPage forms you will need to do the following:
1) Right Click On My Computer
2) Click On Manage
You should then get the Computer Management Console
3) Expand the Internet Information Services tree
4) Expand the Web Sites Tree
5) Right Click On Default Web Site
This will bring up the web properties
6) Select the Server Extensions Tab
You are now on the FP Extensions panel, you will see it's split into three sections, you want to be in the middle section
7) Click on Settings in the middle section
You should now see the follwing:
8) In the Web Server's Mail Address box, enter the main email address for the domain used
9) In the Contact Address box, enter the email address that the Forms are to use to send emails
10) In the SMTP Mail Server box, enter the SMTP address of the mail server.
You can leave the encoding types alone if it is just for testing.
11) Click on OK
12) Click OK again
That, in theory, should be it all done
I hope that is of some use to you
Dan
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RE: email on localhost - help! - 1/15/2005 19:03:18
thanks for the input - wil give it a try!
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