RE: Little help on email using SNDDST or QtmmSendMail

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. Re: Little help on email using SNDDST or QtmmSendMail
>      (rob)
>
>Here's a fun joy.  QMSF and STRTCPSVR *SMTP.  Which should start first? 
>Well, IBM puts one as a prestart job in one subsystem and another as an 
>autostart job in another.  And it does matter which one starts first.  But 
>IBM never takes any steps to start them in the right order.  So QMSF often 
>dies because the SMTP jobs weren't running.  WRKJOB QMSF should show you 
>this in the joblogs.  I've submitted a few DCR's on this.


Odd... I've used both MSF and SMTP in various ways since each first appeared. I 
have never seen either be dependent on the other being started.

Granted, a given e-mail item that needs to pass in either direction between 
them will not proceed until the other is started, but that has never caused job 
failures on either side for me as far as I can remember.

Might be interesting to know what would cause this trouble in order to avoid it 
in the future. Since V5R1, I haven't used SMTP much under OS/400 since it isn't 
needed much here so maybe something's new; but I do start it once in a while 
for specific tasks. MSF is often started for object distribution within our 
network, but even it isn't always running.

Tom Liotta

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