
Once you are done, you should see a confirmation similar to the one in Figure 5. Give the mailbox a name and a password and click on “OK”. Right-click on the new domain that you just created and select New -> Mailbox. In the “POP3 Service” window, click on “New Domain” and give it a domain name in the popup dialog and click on “OK”. Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> POP3 Service.
Start this service if it is stopped and close the Services Manager. If it is set to Manual, double-click to bring up its properties and set the Startup Type to Automatic. Once you find this service, look at the Startup Type. In the Services Manager, look for a service named “Microsoft POP3 Service”.
Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services.To set up a POP3 server to receive emails from the Multimedia server: Follow these instructions only if you are using Windows Server 2003 64-bit. You will need to use email client such as Outlook Express to receive emails in Server 2008. Note that Pop3 service is no longer supported in Windows Server 2008 or newer Server-class OS. Setting up Pop3 Service (Windows Server 2003 64-bit Users, Only) Once the installation is finished, you can open the IIS Manager and see that it is installed.The Add Features Wizard will then confirm your installation selections and you should see SMTP Server listed there.If you don’t have the required roles yet to install this, a small window will ask if you want to install the required roles. In the “Add Feature Wizard”, select “SMTP Server”.Go to “Features” and select ‘Add Features’.
This opens the “Server Manager” window.įigure 1 - Windows Components Wizard: E-mail Services
Once the Programs and Features dialog opens, click on the “Turn Windows Feature On/Off” option on the left. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features. Note that IIS is automatically installed when you install GENESIS64 products, as it is one of the requirements. For the simplicity, this topic covers only the installation of SMTP Server in Server 2008 64-bit. In general, you can find it in Add/Remove Components. The installation path is different for each version of windows. On most versions of Windows, you can install your own SMTP Server within IIS. Please note that it is up to you to set your SMTP server to allow emailing outside of your local machine for more information, refer to the Multimedia Email Agents and Email Agent General Settings topics. This topic walks through the necessary steps to configure your system to send and receive mail messages on your local machine using the SMTP server in IIS. With the SMTP mail agent, it is possible to install an SMTP server in IIS and send out your alarm notification via email using your local SMTP server.