RE: Strange email sending problem

Since we have an internal mail server (Exchange), we target that server as
our MAILROUTER, and specify Firewall(*YES).  Our network firewall knows that
the server (Mailrouter) will be handling email, so it's allowed through the
firewall.  When we mistakenly changed FIREWALL to *NO, the as400 tried (with
varying degrees of success) to deliver mail directly to the destination
domain.  

MAILROUTER does not point to the firewall, unless your firewall acts as a
mail proxy....

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:18 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Strange email sending problem


> Jeff, we had similar problems due to firewall issues.  Try 
> CHGSMTPA (F4), page down to MAILROUTER and FIREWALL.  When 
> you have a mailrouter defined, Firewall indicates that all 
> mail should go through the defined route to bypass firewall 
> issues.  If FIREWALL(*NO), then your as400 is trying to talk 
> to the remote mailservers directly.  

OK, now this might be promising.  Ours is MAILROUTER(*NONE) FIREWALL(*NO).
The path to the outside world is as follows:

iSeries --> Cisco 2621 Router --> Cisco 506e PIX --> Internet

The IP addresses are:

iSeries is 192.168.0.1

Cisco 2621 router Internal IP 192.168.0.250
                  External IP 192.168.10.2

Cisco 506 PIX     Internal IP 192.168.10.1
                  External IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Are you saying MAILROUTER should point to 192.168.0.250?  (192.168.0.250 is
already set up as the default route.)  Or is MAILROUTER supposed to point to
the PIX internal IP?  Or should it point to something outside the firewall?

And then FIREWALL should say what?  *YES or *NO?

-- 
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:40 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Strange email sending problem
> 
> 
> Eric DeLong
> Sally Beauty Company
> MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
> 940-898-7863 or ext. 1863
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:19 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Strange email sending problem
> 
> 
> > What happens when you try to send a message from the iSeries? 
> >  Does it get rejected?  Is it poorly formatted?
> 
> I get this back (I changed the phone number to all x's):
> 
> <what I get back>
> 
> NOT ABLE TO DELIVER MAIL TO SOME/ALL RECIPIENTS.
> REPLY CODES WITH FIRST DIGIT = '4' OR '5' ARE ERROR REPLIES.
> ERRORS THAT DO NOT HAVE ERROR REPLY CODES MAY EXIST.
> 
> HOST AS400 NOT ABLE TO DELIVER MAIL TO FOLLOWING RECIPIENT(S):
>    <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> RETRIES EXHAUSTED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CONNECT TO REMOTE HOST CWEMAIL.
> 
>              ** TEXT OF MAIL FOLLOWS **
> Received: from jlcrosby([192.168.0.11]) by AS400.DILGARD.COM 
> (IBM OS/400 SMTP V05R02M00) with TCP; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:47:13 -0500
> From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Test
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:48:08 -0500
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>       charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
> Thread-Index: AcQXWRYTQ/afYINKRliQP51a7W4gAg==
> 
> </what I get back>
> 
> Here are the internet headers on the above:
> 
> <internetheaders>
> 
> DATE: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:18:59 -0500
> FROM: QGATE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> TO: <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> SUBJECT: UNDELIVERABLE MAIL
> 
> </internetheaders>
> 
> --
> Jeff Crosby
> Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
> 
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the 
> opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
> 
> 
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