Configuring the windows server SMTP email sever for my website

I show how i use windows server 2008 to configure an smtp server for my forum website. I use the smtp role and set up the server, then port forwart port 25 to send emails to my users in the event I need to.

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what's up guys it's jacob here sorry i'd
spend a couple days since i made a video
but I'm I've been really busy with stuff
so on
mainly and I've been trying to get an
email server working on my website if
you guys have been to my website the
hack hub com
this is it I know that's my email this
is it right here on this is the the
website but then there's the form here
now this form has been running for a few
days it's been functioning perfectly so
far and one thing it doesn't have yet is
the email server which is what I've been
working on because let's say you forget
your password or you want to receive
notifications if someone replies to your
post or whatever the case may be I'm you
you for now you don't need an email to
register so i probably keep it that way
but so people are able to register but
if you forget your password something
you're kind of Sol because it there's no
way for it to actually send you an email
to verify on your password change so
I've been working on that now for those
of you guys who don't know a lot about
this you're actually going to use smtp
simple mail transfer protocol or
whatever stands for and that's what used
to send a mail now my biggest freaking
fear is mail servers i hate mail servers
with all my heart
they're just such a pain in the ass to
configure there for me
I mean I've never had a mail server work
for me the first time ever
so i'm going to show you guys how I do
it does work very well I don't like
reeling mail through other people
servers I don't like sending it through
like because i use time warner cable and
a lot of times you can really mail
through servers that's not a good way i
don't like to do with to rely on other
people service i just want to send mail
from my server now sometimes this will
work and sometimes it won't work your
internet provider or ISP may block your
port 25 seat smtp sends mail through
port 25 that's the that's the server
port and it also can send it through
Redleaf 443 if it's a secure on port
using ssl that
you have to have certificates and crap
and that gets really expensive and
that's why just absolutely hate mail
services because they just that
sometimes that they never work perfect
there's never a perfect working male
servants really hard for me to get these
damn things working because on a lot of
times I'll get in networking smtp mail
server but then let's say I go to send
an email to someone like a gmail account
within gmail do a reverse dns lookup on
my server and they'll see that it's not
a certified server then they'll reject
the mail and then you can't send emails
and it's ridiculous email servers are
such a pain in the ass to set up so
here's what i did on I actually set up
an entirely new server on this is my
dell poweredge 1850 and it's running
Windows Server 2008 so we're actually
using windows server 2008 to send our
emails with the smtp server on package
in windows server 2008 I really do want
to run a linux version of this but I
don't know how to do it yet
mom I just have never gotten around to
it and even setting one up in windows
server is such a pain in the ass email
service or just I hate them on but I
figured out one a while ago in windows
server that works perfectly so what I
did was this is my my web server here
and i had edited the php.ini so pseudo
VI anh / ET c / php5 / apache2 / pti and
I and i'll take you to this
configuration file where fifty-six
percent of the way in and it's line like
1000 something or something like that i
really don't even know it's really far
down hugh jass file but the smtp so this
is the server smtp server right here and
I'm actually sending it to a local
server because it's on my local network
this is the port and then when it sends
the emails out to you guys that sends it
from me
this is my email address on my email
server Jacob at the hub . com
so on this is 1000 . 3 that's my
webserver
and then this here is 10 . 0056 that
were referencing here in the PHP tonight
so if i go ahead and escape W and Q
we're saving those configuration
settings in the php.ini it now has this
server setup in the configuration
settings to bina the mail server so what
you do is when your windows server 2008
what I'm going to go ahead and do is
we'll just go ahead and open up the
administrative tools and we'll go to the
server manager so what I went ahead and
did is let's go ahead and open this up a
little bit more on I went into the arm
the features and i added the feature on
you can see here
smtp server and says it's already
installed and it will need to install a
few other roles and packages and crafts
to make that work but it will
automatically do all that once you have
done that you've installed the smtp
server you can go ahead and launch the
refinance to go away and would go ahead
and launch the on the is-6 . manager now
this is a really old one because now
it's up to like seven . something or
whatever but on then you just click on
server for you expand it you have your
smtp server and it's running and you can
right click on it go to properties and
what I'm saying is I'm saying to use
only the 10 . 006 poor on port 25 or
that IP address so it's using that
network card and then on I have it
logged enabled so that i can access the
logs I also said it pretty high the file
size is too big so it will store up 22
gigs of logs for the server
authentication i'm just going to go
ahead and leave an anonymous access but
i am going to say the connections i'm
just so people can't just send mail
through my servers because that would
not be good because people use it for
spam mail so what I'm going to do is I'm
only going to allow it to connect only
going to allow my web server to connect
to it so if it doesn't have this IP
address it's not going to accept it so
we're going to grant this server which
is my web server and spring also allow
my webserver
to relay emails through this smtp server
so 1000 23 that way on not anybody can
just access my mail server and send mail
through my email server so we've updated
that that's all good and it's running
and now what we do is on it's pretty
much good to go really mean you don't
have to do much more than that you can
do more if you want to you can also do
things like let me just show you a quick
you can set up on TLS you can set up
what's it called
they have SLI believe SSL connections
somewhere on here side but anyways if
you want to do all that you have to have
certificates and crafts and I'm not that
I don't want to get too much into having
certificates so what I do is I just run
the the port 25 just standard email
server instead of running the 443
alright guys so if we go ahead and look
at this thing in action
I actually port forward in my server as
well so this 1006 that email server the
windows smtp server is port forwarded on
port 25 which allows it to communicate
with the outside world and all the other
email servers so we'll go ahead and do
is login will hit the the login button
over here and i'm going to go ahead and
click I forgot my password and then so
what we're going to do is normally you
just throw in your username and your
email and submit it and it will say that
it sent you a password to the e-mail
address i have here my arm I have my
email here so if we go here and we can
see that boom right now it's 1206 so 06
there my password has activation has
been reset or available email has been
sent to reset my password so that means
that the email server is working for
this site
well that's pretty much it for this one
guys on hope you guys enjoyed this quick
little tutorial
or whatever if you call it a tutorial I
mean I guess is real because i showed
you guys how to set up a little windows
smtp mail server but that's how we are
sending our meal for now because enjoyed
that little quick rundown but like I
said guys I really don't want to keep
going this way I want to figure out a
way to do it in linux I just don't have
time right now and like I said email
servers just on their own rpandme asked
to set up but on i have an entire server
an entire dell poweredge 1850 running
just to send emails which is pretty
ridiculous on it's literally just oiling
all day pretty much on so i need to
figure out a way to send emails through
linux ubuntu but I just don't have the
time for that quite yet maybe if yes yes
definitely jump on over to my format the
half.com in if you guys know how to do
it definitely helped me out over there
but on I'll look into it for now this is
the quickest way I knew how to do it off
the top of my head
so we're having entire windows server
2008 server running just for sending
emails through smtp that's it for this
one guys i hope you guys enjoyed this
tutorial and like always have a good one
guys