{"id":3813,"date":"2006-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2006\/07\/21\/using-an-smtp-server-that-requires-authentication\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T08:00:00","slug":"using-an-smtp-server-that-requires-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/using-an-smtp-server-that-requires-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"Using an SMTP server that requires authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/Search\/Search.aspx?words=&amp;CSVUserID=Mzk5NDk=&amp;SiteID=1\">Bill Essary<\/a> provided the following as a work around for using a Team Foundation Server email notifications with an SMTP server that requires a user name and password.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using an SMTP virtual server on the TFS AT.&nbsp; That virtual SMTP server can be configured to provide the authentication credentials that the &ldquo;real&rdquo; SMTP server needs when relaying messages.&nbsp; Please consult the following links for more details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324285\">HOW TO: Set SMTP Security Options in Windows Server 2003<\/a> \n<\/li>\n<li>MSDN forum thread: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=147049&amp;SiteID=1\">http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=147049&amp;SiteID=1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As mentioned in the MSDN forum thread, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/psheill\/\">Pete Sheill<\/a> provides information on tracing the TFS interactions with the SMTP server in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/psheill\/archive\/2005\/11\/28\/497662.aspx\">How to verify Tfs is sending emails<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Essary provided the following as a work around for using a Team Foundation Server email notifications with an SMTP server that requires a user name and password. TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Bill Essary provided the following as a work around for using a Team Foundation Server email notifications with an SMTP server that requires a user name and password. TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}