Change Postmaster 'from' address

Brent Gardner

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Oct 19, 2004, 6:31:07 PM10/19/04

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I have seen this question asked several times in this and other groups but
never answered. Will somebody at Microsoft please authoritatively answer?

How does one change the 'from' address of the postmaster?

When an NDR or other system message is issued it is addressed from
postmaster@<MachineName> or postmaster@<MachineName>.<DomainName>

How does one change this to postmaster@<ArbitraryFQDN>?

Changing the address NDRs are addressed TO is trivial and I am not
interested in this information.

We're running Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0, no Exchange.

Respectfully,

Brent Gardner
Network Administrator
IPRO Tech, Inc.
www.iprocorp.com

Jeff Cochran

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Oct 19, 2004, 9:40:31 PM10/19/04

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:31:07 -0700, "Brent Gardner"
<bgar...@iprocorp.com> wrote:

>I have seen this question asked several times in this and other groups but
>never answered. Will somebody at Microsoft please authoritatively answer?
>
>How does one change the 'from' address of the postmaster?
>
>When an NDR or other system message is issued it is addressed from
>postmaster@<MachineName> or postmaster@<MachineName>.<DomainName>
>
>How does one change this to postmaster@<ArbitraryFQDN>?
>
>Changing the address NDRs are addressed TO is trivial and I am not
>interested in this information.
>
>We're running Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0, no Exchange.

In IIS's SMTP you don't. It's not that sophisticated. Other SMTP
severs provide more configurability to change the postmaster account.

Jeff

Brent Gardner

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Oct 21, 2004, 12:26:31 PM10/21/04

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Jeff-

Thanks for your reply. While I don't doubt your knowledge or experience I'd
still like to get a strait answer from the people who make this software but
don't document it.

I certainly agree that the IIS SMTP server is not sophistocated, but isn't
it the same smtpd that Exchange uses?

We have a web server that hosts some forms that generate email messages via
CDONTS. The messages are sent via the IIS SMTP service. What would be a
better smtpd that would not cost us any extra in licensing?

Thanks.

Brent Gardner
Network Administrator
IPRO Tech, Inc.

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Jeff Cochran

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Oct 21, 2004, 4:44:27 PM10/21/04

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:26:31 -0700, "Brent Gardner"
<bgar...@iprocorp.com> wrote:

>Thanks for your reply. While I don't doubt your knowledge or experience I'd
>still like to get a strait answer from the people who make this software but
>don't document it.

Then you probably wnat to call or email them directly, not post in a
newsgroup that may or may not be monitored by the programmers.

>I certainly agree that the IIS SMTP server is not sophistocated, but isn't
>it the same smtpd that Exchange uses?

Sure. Except that Exchange handles the email addressing and
mailboxes.

>We have a web server that hosts some forms that generate email messages via
>CDONTS. The messages are sent via the IIS SMTP service. What would be a
>better smtpd that would not cost us any extra in licensing?

Microsoft's works fine for that. Your issue was changing the
postmaster return address, which depends on the SMTP installation
pulling the actual system name when the message is sent. The
postmaster account is from the system sending the message in
Microsoft's SMTP, and other than changing system names and domains you
can't easily affect that. In many other SMTP products you can change
the addressing as you see fit.

If you're looking for a *free* SMTP try Mercury Mail from pmail.com,
or Sendmail, both of which include POP which you don't get on W2K.

Jeff

Jens Frandsen

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Oct 1, 2009, 1:38:31 PM10/1/09

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Did anyone ever find a way to do this?

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Sanford Whiteman

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Oct 1, 2009, 2:54:17 PM10/1/09

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> Did anyone ever find a way to do this?

It uses postmaster@<defaultdomain>, where defaultdomain is the domain
marked Local (Default) on the SMTP VS. You can change this value after
installation (see previous message in this very newsgroup), but you can't
change it dynamically per-message.

What are you trying to change it to that can't be accomodated by changing
the defaultdomain (I'm not saying there aren't valid situations, I'm just
asking which one you're in)?

-- Sandy

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