I must be crazy or something, but I thought if you stopped/disabled the SMTP
service on a sharepoint server that it won't send out notifications. Is
this not true?
I have a server configured as a test system but has a restore from another
server. I stopped SMTP service and set it to Manual. It's not running.
But when I rebooted it, it still fired off a couple of notifications.
Is the only way to stop notifications following the instructions that others
have posted (a la spsfaq)?