SMTP Server Configuration on Windows ( hmail server installation and configuration)

Recently I was trying to customize the WCM workflow notification email body content customization and thought to configure the SMTP server in local machine for the convenience.

First I tried to configure WCM Email notification with the google SMTP but IBM doesn’t support it , more details related it are here.

Found the hmailserver (third party smtp server) as simple and installed and configured it.

1.      Download hmailserver from the below url

http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=download

2.      Installation is mostly straight forward

password is : hmail/hmail

3.      Configuring windows 7 DNS and firewalls

a.      Add following in hosts file (open the C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts in notepad as admin user )

192.168.1.19 sivapc.sivavaka.com

192.168.1.19 mail.sivapc.sivavaka.com

192.168.1.19 smtp.sivapc.sivavaka.com

192.168.1.19 pop3.sivapc.sivavaka.com

b.      Update the window firewall to open the SMTP, POP3 and/or IMAP ports

                                i.     Open “Windows Firewall” form Control Panel --> “Inbound rules”

I have McAfee Antivirus installed and it manages firewall locally

                               ii.          Select the 25 (smtp), 110 (pop3)  in the Mcafee firewall section to open these ports

4.      Configuring the "hmailserver"

a.      Add domain

b.      open hmailserver administration -- > enter admin password

c.      Create domain

d.      Once you save , you can add email accounts

password: admin

e.      Update the IP address for the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP

Settings --> advanced --> TCP/IP ports

after updating the ports it asks for restart

5.      You can test to see if SMTP is working properly or not by using the following command from command line

C:\Users\Siva>telnet smtp.sivapc.sivavaka.com 25

You can use "QUIT" , to exit from the smtp session.

6.      Adding the email account to outlook client (any email client)

a.      First I tried to setup the outlook using auto setup but failed

b.      Selected Manual setup

Click on "more settings" from above step and select "My outgoing server(SMTP) requires authentication" and "use same settings as my incoming mail server"

7.      Disable SMTP authentication

a.      You can disable the SMTP authentication for specific IP range.  By default, hMailServer does not require SMTP authentication for connections coming from localhost / 127.0.0.1. For connections coming from other hosts, SMTP authentication is required for deliveries to external recipients. By default, hMailServer never requires SMTP authentication for deliveries to local accounts, since that would prevent other e-mail servers to deliver email to your installation.