IIS SMTP Monitor

Users who are involved into web hosting providing might not appreciate spam, especially when it is sent from their own server by their customers. Facing a potential blacklisting because of such issues, people who offer their web hosting could be looking for a tool for controlling spam by monitoring the IIS 6 pickup folder.

IIS SMTP Monitor is an application that is deployed as a Windows service and it was created in order to help one fight spam by analyzing the activity recorded in the IIS pickup folder. Those who hold web hosting services with ASP or PHP scripts, allow people to send emails from their servers anonymously.

If spam is sent using this protocol, tracking down the initial sender is a difficult task and, sooner or later, those who hold the web hosting might get their servers blacklisted. By logging the file name / owner and first bytes of the email message, IIS SMTP Monitor will allow users to get a hold of the spammers much easier.

Once the service has been installed, it will display the origin (owner of the username) of the outgoing spam emails and it will allow users to track the source in no time. All that they need to do is start the monitoring service by navigating to its corresponding program entry and it will begin the monitoring process and it will provide the required information.