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Specifying the Pickup Directory

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Specifying the Pickup Directory

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When you choose to send a message using cdoSendUsingPickup, CDO for Exchange 2000 Server (CDOEX) searches the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) metabase and determines the pickup directory for the first active SMTP service instance. Alternatively, you can specify which SMTP service pickup directory you want CDOEX to use by setting the smtpserverpickupdirectory Field. However, if you explicitly set the pickup directory in your application, subsequently changing the location of the pickup directory may cause your application to fail.

Important  In Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003, default read access to the IIS metabase is restricted. Therefore, you need to either explicitly set the pickup directory in your application, or ensure that your application runs under an account that has read access to the IIS metabase.

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