Setting and Testing SMTP in Windows7

Question

I am using SMTP service to send mail through my application This application is working on all O/S My O/S is Windows 7 I have added my SMTP server name etc in the SMTP settings But there is no mailroot folder in c:\inetpub Also the mails are not being sent How do I test that the SMTP service is active.

Answer 1

You can use the telnet command to interact with your SMTP server.

telnet localhost 25

or

telnet localhost 587

depending on what port you have set up. If the SMTP service has been setup correctly then it will answer with a welcome message.