RE: AS400 V4R3 Outbound SMTP Mail Delivery Problem

Changing the firewal parm to *yes fixed the problem.

Thanks

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 8:10 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: AS400 V4R3 Outbound SMTP Mail Delivery Problem
> 
> William:
> I believe that if you change the firewall parm on the CHGSMTPA command to
> *yes, it will force all the mail to be send to the mail router
> mail.ourcompany.com.
> There are some other test you can do by telneting to *localhost on port
> 25.  From there you can have an interactive "conversation" with the SMTP
> server to see if it rejecting some parameter of the SMTP exchange.  If you
> need more detail, let me know.
> cjg
> 
> 
> Carl J. Galgano
> EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> 540 Powder Springs Street, Suite C19
> Marietta, GA  30064
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> 
>        -----Original Message-----
>       From:   owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com] 
>       Sent:   Saturday, October 28, 2000 2:20 PM
>       To:     MIDRANGE-L
>       Subject:        AS400 V4R3 Outbound SMTP Mail Delivery Problem
> 
>       We are running V4R3 and are only using our AS400 Mail only to send
> reports in *pdf format and small outfiles of  report data in *xls, *dbase
> or *txt format to users and a few outside vendors.   We are doing this
> through either SNDDST, ASC Sequel or SPLTOOL.
> 
>       Our company's internal regular user desktop mail is handled by a MS
> Exchange Server and the Lan group routes their outbound internet email
> through our out of state corporate mail gateway.  We are not involving our
> local MS Exchange Server in our outbound AS400 mail.
> 
>       Our SMTP attribs are set to use our corporate mail router gateway in
> another state at mail.ourcompany.com, which is the same outbound mail
> gateway our MS Exchange Server uses for regular desktop mail.
> 
>       We have an Directory Entry (wrkdire) set up for:
> 
>       1. Each user that uses these functions
>       Mail Service Level: 1=User Index
>       Preferred Address=1 User ID/Address
>       SMTP User ID at firstname.lastname
>       SMTP Domain: company domain
> 
>       2. An entry for INTERNET GATEWEAY
> 
>       Description . . . . . .                 INTERNET GATEWAY      
>       System name/Group . . .                 INTERNET
> 
>       User profile  . . . . .                                            
>       Network user ID . . . .                 INTERNET GATEWAY      
>                                                   
>       Address type  . . . .           ATCONTXT                   
>       For choice 9=Other preferred address:         
>               Field name  . . . .             NETUSRID        *IBM    
>                                                   
> 
>       SMTP Attributes:
> 
>       Autostart server . . . . . . . .        AUTOSTART               *YES
> 
>       Retries by minute:                      RTYMIN
> 
>         Number of retries  . . . . . .                                3
> 
>         Time interval  . . . . . . . .                                30
> 
>       Retries by day:                         RTYDAY
> 
>         Number of retries  . . . . . .                                0
> 
>         Time interval  . . . . . . . .                                0
> 
>       Retry remote name server . . . .        RTYRMTSVR               *NO
> 
>       Automatic registration . . . . .        AUTOADD                 *NO
> 
>         User ID prefix . . . . . . . .        USRIDPFX                QSM
> 
>         Address  . . . . . . . . . . .        ADDRESS
> QSMRMTAD       
>         System name  . . . . . . . . .        SYSNAME
> TCPIP          
>         Alias table type . . . . . . .        TBLTYPE
> *SYSTEM   
>       User ID delimiter  . . . . . . .        USRIDDELIM              '?'
> 
>       Mail router  . . . . . . . . . .        MAILROUTER
> 'MAIL.OURCOMPANY.COM'             
>       Coded character set identifier          CCSID
> 00819                            
>       Mapping tables:                         TBLSMTPOUT
> 
>        Outgoing EBCDIC/ASCII table  .
> *CCSID                            
>        Library  . . . . . . . . . .
> 
>                                                       TBLSMTPIN
> 
>       Incoming ASCII/EBCDIC table  .                          *CCSID
> 
>           Library  . . . . . . . . . .
> 
>       Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . .        FIREWALL                *NO
> .
> 
> 
>       Our problem is that outbound mail is only sent from the AS400 if it
> is addressed to a user at user@ourcompany.com. (they may or may not be
> users set up in Directory Entries)   Per a Com Trace on our Ethernet Line
> Ports, and a Com Trace on inbound gateway mail at our out of state
> Corporate Mail Gateway, only mail that is sent to user@ourcompany.com is
> leaving the AS400.   Mail sent to users at other domains do not generate
> error message on the AS400, yet per the com traces, they are never leaving
> the AS400.
> 
>       Does anyone have experience in what we may have set up incorrectly ?
> 
>       Thanks.
> 
> 
>       William N. Harrell, Jr.
> 

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