TFS Email Error

Question

we are setting up TFS 2013 for our company we have a problem in email alerts and configuration

after configuring the smtp settings and when we try to send a test mail we get the below error.

TFS Email Error:

Answer 1

First, make sure your connection of TFS are all normal.

As DaveShaw mentioned, please double check the configure of SMTP server. More details of configuration from MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms400808.aspx

Note: the format of SMTP server should be IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Answer 2

You need to make sure you are sending emails from a windows account e.g [email protected] or [email protected]. This solved our email issue in TFS on prem