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By PlateSpinner, July 7, 2008 9:41 am

Let’s say you’re using a virtual machine to develop SharePoint on and you need to test some mail alerts.  These instructions will show you how to set up the built-in SMTP on Windows Server 2003 so that it will accept mail and forward it to a production mail server such as a home ISP mail server or your company’s Exchange server for delivery to either another mailbox account or any other e-mail address.  This would allow a developer to enable and test e-mail notifications from SharePoint or any other application.

Follow these instructions to turn on SMTP and set it to use your current mail server as a Smart Host e-mail relay with authentication:

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