How to enable SMTP for IIS 8?

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eestein picture eestein · Mar 14, 2013 · Viewed 84.2k times · Source

I can't find where to enable the SMTP on Windows 8 Pro. Surprisingly enough I didn't even find answers online. Has anyone figured this out yet?

As usual I checked that all necessary IIS components were installed:

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Still no SMTP configuration on inetmgr:

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Answer

Apollo SOFTWARE picture Apollo SOFTWARE · Mar 14, 2013

Windows 8 no longer allows SMTP Server, just merely SMTP Service. You can forward to a server with existing SMTP capabilities but no longer will it act as a server in IIS.

Reference: http://www.neatcomponents.com/enable-SMTP-in-Windows-8

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