I recently had the pleasure of migrating a legacy server 2008 app to a brand new server 2022 box.
One of the requirements is a local smtp server for sending mail so I looked up how to do this in windows.
To my shock and horror, smtp service has been deprecated since server 2012, you can still install it but it comes with an extremely old version of IIS as a dependency and it’s broken out of the box.
To get it working you have to dig into some xml files and add parameters.
I really wonder how anyone can take a server OS seriously that doesn’t have out of the box first class functionality for smtp, one of the most ubiquitous protocols on the internet.
To my shock and horror, smtp service has been deprecated since server 2012, you can still install it but it comes with an extremely old version of IIS as a dependency and it’s broken out of the box.
To get it working you have to dig into some xml files and add parameters.
I really wonder how anyone can take a server OS seriously that doesn’t have out of the box first class functionality for smtp, one of the most ubiquitous protocols on the internet.