Hi,

I have installed new Sharepoint Server. When i was checking the email alert, it is not working.

I tried to send message from powershell, i get the following error

I have disabled firewall and antivirus. Please let me know why i am not able to send mail

Did you check if the smtp server is online and listening on port 25?

Could you pls tell me how to check if SMTP server online and talking to port 25? Thanks

Hi

  Yes Guru is right for sending mails in SharePoint you need to configure SMTP service please go through below link for configuring SMTP Service:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc288949(v=office.14).aspx

Regards,

MS

If the SMTP server that you're using "mail.adex.com.my", does not accept connections from unknown hosts, then you will need to add the IP address of your SharePoint server to the mail servers whitelist.

The only way to test this from the SharePoint server is to enable the Telnet Client feature on the server, and then use:-

TELNET mail.adex.com.my 25

If you get a connection (A blank screen, with a flashing cursor), type HELO and see if you get a response back.

Paul.

Hi,

According to your post, my understanding is that you couldnt use the PowerShell to send email in SharePoint 2013.

There can be multiple reasons for it.

At first, youd better check if you configure outgoing e-mail and incoming email for your SharePoint 2013 farm.

There are two articles about how to configure outgoing e-mail and incoming email for your SharePoint 2013 farm.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288949(v=office.14).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947(v=office.15).aspx

And then, youd better check whether your anti-virus software blocking to connect SMTP server using PowerShell.

I recommend you to check with the following steps:

1.        Right click on McAfee icon
2.        Click on Virus Scan Console
3.        Double click on Access Protection on VirusScan Console
4.        On Access Protection tab
5.        Go to Anti-Virus Standard Protection
6.        On right hand side, double click on Prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail
7.        On process to exclude tab, add PowerShell.exe at the end
8.        Click ok
9.        Click apply on Access Protection
10.    Click ok

Then you can try again to use the PowerShell to send mail.

For more information, you can refer to:

http://dhimantr.blogspot.com/2013/06/send-mailmessage-unable-to-connect-to.html

In addition, there is an article about how to check if SMTP Port 25 is blocked.

http://kb.siteground.com/smtp_port_25_blocked/

Thanks,

Linda Li                

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Dear All,

I have tried the smtp configuration, unblock firewall and uninstalled antivirus. But still get the error remote host could not be found when i use the smtp-mailmessage command in the powershell

Is there anything else that need to check?

Hi

Please telnet smpt server with port 25 ... it should give you blank screen.

Then you need to install IIS6 and do some configuration also you need to update few thing in Central admin .

Please refer url:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pareshg/archive/2010/04/23/how-to-configure-incoming-and-outgoing-emails-in-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx

Also communicate with team who manages SMTP server for relay setting.

--Prasad Tandel

I have installed IIS already and completed all te configuration suggested in the link. But still when I use send-mail message it give an error "unable to connect to remote server"