yea unfortuantely this particular smtp server does not require
authentication! So I'm still stumped..
thanks
tr


"J Ford" wrote:

> Well depending on how your smtp/exchange server is setup it requires domain
> authentication. Instead of running as system through a schedule task set it
> up to run as a domain user.
>
> "tonyr" wrote:
>
> > I have the following single line script running from a w2k3 server
> > Send-SmtpMail -SmtpHost a.b.com -To dope@b.com -From dope@b.com
> > -subject "tm down"
> >
> > if I run it as a user it works fine if I try to run it as a scheduled tasks
> > as "system" nothing happens!
> >
> > any ideas?
> > thanks
> > tr
> >