# Setting Up SMTP Service on Win '08

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**Created:** [May 23, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-up-smtp-service-on-win-08/68180 "2009-05-23T04:03:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-up-smtp-service-on-win-08/68180/1 "2009-05-23T04:03:44Z")

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I need my apps to send email, so I install the SMTP Feature.  
Where do I go to associate a friendly binding like [mailsmtp.blah.com](http://mailsmtp.blah.com) ?

I assume that’s an MX record with godaddy for DNS, but where you you affiliate in on local server side?

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-up-smtp-service-on-win-08/68180/2 "2009-05-23T06:22:02Z")

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[http://www.itsolutionskb.com/2008/11/installing-and-configuring-windows-server-2008-smtp-server/](http://www.itsolutionskb.com/2008/11/installing-and-configuring-windows-server-2008-smtp-server/)

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**Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-up-smtp-service-on-win-08/68180/3 "2009-05-23T12:02:53Z")

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Funny, i was looking at the same thing this AM. I thougt I would have to set up bindings like my IIS sites. But it appears I don’t have to. SMTP will listen on 25.

Anyway that tutorial isn’t helping because I’m following his telnet test and when I get to the RCPT TO: part , I get “unable to relay” for any address I enter.

Help?

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**Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-up-smtp-service-on-win-08/68180/4 "2009-05-24T12:27:33Z")

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OK, I got the relay issue taken care of, that was permissions. But I can’t send mail. It’s stuck in the queue.

I asked for a reverse DNS and I have an A record setup. If I am only using this for outbound, do I need an MX record? I read somewhere that some mail services will reject the connection if they can’t resolve an MX record.