IIS email blocked by anti virus

Question

I have being having trouble with the web server used for our intranet. It has some antivirus software on it that stops mass emailing.

So I wrote a quick C# winforms app, ran it on the server to try and send an email, and it failed. It was being blocked by antivirus on the server, I added the exe to the allowed list and it worked fine. I tried adding the service inetinfo.exe, which is the only one I could see related to IIS, and it doesn't seem to enable the emailing.

Would asp.net code send the email under a different exe name? I have seen a reference to aspnet_wp.exe.

Answer 1

Have you added port 25 or whatever the smtp server is using to the allow list?

Answer 2

ASP.NET runs under "w3wp.exe" on Windows Server 2003, and "aspnet_wp.exe" under Windows 2000. So you'll need to open up your scanner for those processes.