Greetings to all who read this and thanks to all who try to provide a possible solution. I have a Ricoh Aficio 2045 Multifunction device on my network. It will allow you to send a scan via SMTP...sort of. The only two options in the SMTP config page are "SMTP server name" and "SMTP Port". That's it. A server name and a port. Well, we have email hosted somewhere else and it requires authentication so we cannot put that server info into the machine, and the latest Ricoh firmware for this product will not give us any more options (only purchasing a newer model will, of course) Does anyone know of a way to work around this. So far, I messed with the SMTP virtual server in IIS on Windows 2000 Server, set it up to allow anonymous connections from within my LAN and had it accepting mail from an outlook express client but it just dropped the Mail into the Queue directory in mailroot. It accepted the mail though, so it seems I am halfway there. My question is, do I need to set up Exchange server on this network to take it the rest of the way? In other words, pick up the mail from the virtual server and send it on to our Mail host along with the correct authentication so it can reach an internet recipient? Is that possible? Is there an easier way than having to set up exchange server if that is one solution? I suppose I can figure out how to do it but I Know it would be a massive undertaking, I am not well versed in MS Exchange and I am trying to find out if that would be the simplest course. Any suggestions would be helpful. I have looked at some 3rd party SMTP "server" programs but so far all that I have tried did not serve the purpose I have in mind. I want to send email from the scanner to a local machine on my network that will require no authentication at all, then have that machine send it on to our internet Mail host with the proper authentication so the message can the be sent to it's internet recipient. Thanks for any help that can be provided.

Whatever you do, you're stuck with a SMTP server. You could use existing Exchange/SMTP servers, but if you plan to implement one solely for this issue, I would recommend an opensource server to save costs. There are a lot of preinstalled VMWARE appliances out there that would suit your needs. (I hope I'm not going to be banned from the Forum now ) Just to be safe; hereby also something MS minded: http://www.petri.co.il/configure_iis_to_be_a_smart_host_for_exchange.htm http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324285 Cheers, Mark