I'm working on a website, and I need
to test the functionality of sending email messages from ASP.NET, something like this:
Dim msg As New MailMessage("email1", "email2")
msg.Subject = "Subject"<br>
msg.IsBodyHtml = True<br>
msg.Body = "Click <a href='site'>here</a>."
Dim
client As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient()
client.Host = "My-Server"<br>
client.Port = 25<br>
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network<br>
client.Send(msg)
This is running from a Windows 8 workstation.
I've installed SMTP
server on my Windows
Server 2012 machine. The mail shows up in the mailroot/Queue folder and sits there, eventually getting deposited into Badmail.
Now I have AT&T U-verse at home, and a few devices connected
to the gateway, including let's call it "My-Server."
When I run SmtpDiag from say, datc@...
to [email protected] I get SOA serial number match passed, Local DNS (99-135-60-233.lightspeed.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net) & Remote DNS (hotmail.com) tests *not* passed, and ultimately, Connecting
to the
server failed. Error: 10060. Failed
to submit mail
to mx2.hotmail.com error.
When I set My-Server's IP
to static and equal
to the external IP, 99.135.60.233, and again run SmtpDiag, I get SOA, Local DNS, and Remote DNS tests passed, but the same 10060 error.
Same for yahoo.com, gmail.com, and so forth.
Is it my ISP's job
to fix this? Some PTR record missing somewhere? Is it at all possible
to have a home-based SMTP server? All I want is
to test my email code. Perhaps, my IP address is just not "trusted" somehow.
Thanks.
