[SOLVED] SMTP Server config on Windows 10 Pro

[bohemianguitarguy]

My apologies if this is not the right forum to post this question. I'm looking for a simple way to send email from my local PC or file server on my home LAN. Both my local workstation and file server are running windows 10 pro. The reason I'm interested in setting up a SMTP server is for sending notifications to my own personal ATT email account from my APC Smart-UPS that I have for my office workstation. I have PowerChute Business Edition loaded on my local workstation with the agent, server and console apps installed, but in order to configure the email configuration to send notifications from the PowerChute console app, I believe I need to setup a SMTP Server on either my local workstation or my file server so I can put in the smtp IP address with a username/password that can be used to relay the notifications to my personal ATT email. Now, I have used the web interface for the APC smart UPS and used gmail succesfully to send the notifications, but I would like to have it setup to send from the console app on my local workstation if that is possible? I don't have a lot of knowledge about email servers and setting up a smtp server. If anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[kanewolf]

My apologies if this is not the right forum to post this question. I'm looking for a simple way to send email from my local PC or file server on my home LAN. Both my local workstation and file server are running windows 10 pro. The reason I'm interested in setting up a SMTP server is for sending notifications to my own personal ATT email account from my APC Smart-UPS that I have for my office workstation. I have PowerChute Business Edition loaded on my local workstation with the agent, server and console apps installed, but in order to configure the email configuration to send notifications from the PowerChute console app, I believe I need to setup a SMTP Server on either my local workstation or my file server so I can put in the smtp IP address with a username/password that can be used to relay the notifications to my personal ATT email. Now, I have used the web interface for the APC smart UPS and used gmail succesfully to send the notifications, but I would like to have it setup to send from the console app on my local workstation if that is possible? I don't have a lot of knowledge about email servers and setting up a smtp server. If anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated. Thank you.

Have you tried using a typical commercial server like GMAIL ? Create a GMAIL account and use those credentials to send mail.

 

[bohemianguitarguy]

I did try using my gmail account and put in the smtp server name: smtp.gmail.com and my username and password credentials, but it didn't work from my local workstation using the PowerChute console. I was able to make it work using the PowerChute web interface. However, I'd like to get it to work from my local workstation. I'm assuming it doesn't work because my local workstation is not configured with a smtp server. I know enough about mail servers to be dangerous so please excuse any incorrect information on my end. How would my local workstation know to relay the email notification thru my router port to hit Gmail and then send the message? The console app needs the server IP, which put in smtp.gmail.com and my credentials, just as I did using the web interface, but the test failed. I don't understand how the message would relay from my workstation out to Gmail and then gmail sends the message.

 

[Alabalcho]

Your best bet is to make GMail / Hotmail working (I had better success with Hotmail, BTW). Even if you make your local SMTP server, it will take efforts to configure it properly so that it is not considered smapping bot by other servers.