IIS SMTP help

ok im making a website for this guy who really wants it and he wants a form submission page where it will email him the form. right now im running everything off a local server to test while i work on it, the problem is the emails are getting "stuck" in the queue folder, though i dont think they are getting stuck per say..clearly something is not configured properly. i have WAMP and IIS local servers running and when i attempt to send the email i get no errors or anything, they just dont go anywhere. can someone give me some suggestions or insight to the problem? thanks in advanced.

wamp and iis will conflict with each other. Likewise if you have two smtp server on the same box something won't work.

Have you set a mail from the server to test your basic smtp setup? There are many, many reasons email may not work.

not to sound like a tard..but what would i use to send a test email? im pretty lost here.. lol

ive been reading some things that say some ISPs block port 25 or need some type of authentication

"If you get a response such as "220 mx.google.com ..." then your port 25 is not blocked. But if you get "Could not open a connection to host on port 25 : connection failed" or similar, then your port 25 is blocked and you won't be able to do anything about it (except change ISP's)."

my ISP is yahoo dsl (yes..i know..fail.). think that might have anything to do with it? anyone know about this or have yahoo as their ISP and can fill me in on something?

ok, lets just scratch all that...
the guy im making the website for just wants to have a page where users can fill out a Work Request form and then he wants it to email him the form, what is the easiest way to do this?

You're back to your original question. The usual method is to have your website code send a smtp mail message that your code created. You need to have a functional smtp server available. You can use IIS SMTP or probably an external SMTP server. If your isp blocks port 25 then you'll probably need to use their smtp server, and your code will most likely need to provide smtp authentication credentials.

You can find sample code and tutorials for most dynamic web technologies (asp, asp.NET, php, java) with some google searching. www.w3schools.com is one decent starting place.

You can use an email client running on the IIS server computer to send a test message with your IIS smtp server, by the way. Or you can simply manually send a message using telnet, google will help you if you want to try that method of testing.

well after some research and testing, im pretty sure my ISP blocks port 25, and so Ill need to use their smtp, but it requires authentication, which from what i understand..the php mail() function does not work if it needs to be authenticated. so what are my options? ive been reading that PEAR is an alternative, anything else? im still not 100% sure how to install PEAR properly

If you're using php I think the phpMailer app will support smtp auth. I don't know where the docs arre, but the download is at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26031&package_id=252700

There are probably a lot of other alternatives too.

ok, well i got it to work using PEAR ..finally. i will look into the PHP mailer though and check it out. thanks for all the help, Doug.