You could always test that theory out by just turning on smtp on your
local box and trying to send mail. If you can then you probably wont
have to worry about it.
On 9/6/06, Dean H. Saxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My guess is they do not allow you to deploy your own email server.
And firewall rules usually block unsanctioned email servers from
making outbound connections...
-dhs
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On Sep 6, 2006, at 3:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ** If the failing email server successfully accepts mail from CF but
> never sends, then CF will have no way of knowing to use the backup
> server.
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> Thanks, I'll check with the email admin on this one.
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>> We depend on an email server that is not under our control. More
> often
> than we would like, the email server is down, effecting several of our
> applications that depend on email to complete a user request. The
> project officer has asked if we can establish our own email server.
> ** I'm with John, install an SMTP server on the CF server. Depends on
> your OS as to how/what to install.
>
> On a related matter, the ColdFusion administrator allows us to specify
> backup email servers, which I have done. However, this feature
> doesn't
> work, and the email administrator said it probably won't work for
> reasons that I can't recall. Anyone have experience successfully
> failing over to a backup mail server?
> ** If the failing email server successfully accepts mail from CF but
> never sends, then CF will have no way of knowing to use the backup
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