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I'm trying to use Windows 10 mail to send email through my own personal SMTP server. I don't use pop3 or imap, I just deliver my mail to a local maildir.
However, the Mail client won't let me do anything without "signing in" which is stupid. I tried using "example.com" as the account, but it wouldn't actually send my emails at all, and I couldn't find a setting to "send email now".
I was able to scroll down to "Advanced Setup" and use "Internet email account". If I use these settings:
Email Address:
my.real.address@example.com
Username:
this.does.not.matter
Password:
this is the imap/pop password that I don't need
Account name:
Me! Or whatever
Send your messages using this name:
Wayne Werner
Account type:
pop. Imap. Neither matters.
Outgoing (SMTP) email server:
my.real.smtpserver:port
Outgoing server requires auth: checked!
Use the same user name and password for sending email: Not checked
Outgoing server user name:
my.real.smtp.server.username
Outgoing server password:
my real smtp server password
Require SSL for Incoming email: checked
Require SSL for outgoing email: checked
Do I have to create a fake POP/IMAP server to get this app to believe me that I don't actually want to receive email here? Or is there some kind of hidden setting I can use?
When I configured these settings and tried to send a message, nothing happened. It stuck the files in my outbox and that was it. No error message no nothing. As far as I can tell, it was waiting to connect to the IMAP/POP server before it would try to send my email.
Wayne Werner
Posted 2019-06-20T21:43:39.190
Reputation: 1 501
I just checked on my Win 10 VM and wonder: Did you scroll down the list in the "Add an account" screen to the very bottom? The scroll bar is subtle unless you mouse over it, but at the bottom is an Advanced button that allows for manually configuring an "Internet mail account". – music2myear – 2019-06-20T22:14:39.913
Did U modify IIUS user group privileges? – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2019-06-20T23:09:45.017
@music2myear I've updated my question to include that. Yeah, I was able to find that which is why I thought it should be able to send email if I put a dummy value in the incoming thing, like
example.com. – Wayne Werner – 2019-06-20T23:19:50.767@SunnyskyguyEE75 I doubt it, as it's a fresh factory reset of the machine – Wayne Werner – 2019-06-20T23:20:13.327
Then you may need to create these permissions to yourself et al – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2019-06-20T23:22:05.297
Not sure about IIS , but the mailboxes must have some privileges that don’t require login again – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2019-06-20T23:28:29.840
Why do you need to use Windows Mail to just send the/an email? You can send an email without any mail server to an email address without any mail client that contains protocols for email storage of mailbox data and such. It sounds like you just need to send emails so do that via PowerShell and .Net assembly logic, or an open source CLI you can interface with a batch script, etc. I have a few posts with this sort of functionality on SU that I can find and send you a link. Otherwise you want to look for an email sending software with a GUI interface with just SMTP outgoing functionality I think. – Pimp Juice IT – 2019-06-21T00:29:13.567
You may have to setup relay access for the IP the email client sends from to your server if you are then in turn sending it out to others from the email server. I can think of a few ways and using Exchange Server, hMailServer, and another one or two where I've setup such tasks but it all depends on your environment, server systems, etc. – Pimp Juice IT – 2019-06-21T00:30:58.147
@PimpJuiceIT it's not even connecting. I know I can send emails alternatively, say using python. Mail just happened to be integrated into Windows, so it had that going for it. – Wayne Werner – 2019-06-21T10:46:21.093