using local smtp for smtp>pop check

We trying to setup the stmp>pop3 monitor and can have it connect to an external smtp server just fine to send mail, however when we try to use the smtp server setup on the same machine as servercheck it never seems to send the message. This is just using the smtp server in IIS in server 2003. The server's logs look like this



127.0.0.1 - mailadmin [30/Oct/2008:16:18:30 -0500] "EHLO -? mailadmin SMTP" 250 213

127.0.0.1 - mailadmin [30/Oct/2008:16:18:30 -0500] "AUTH -?mailadmin SMTP" 504 0

127.0.0.1 - mailadmin [30/Oct/2008:16:18:30 -0500] "QUIT -?mailadmin SMTP" 240 45



It connects and quits instantly, we're telling servercheck to connect to 127.0.0.1 but localhost doesn't work either.

You can't do that because one application only can use a port on one system. ServersCheck tries connection to port 25 which is already in use by your SMTP server making communication not possible. You will need to point to a SMTP server on a second machine.