Re: MSF mail stopped working -- MIDRANGE-L

Gerald,

You will have to rtm and trouble shoot.  Some places to look;
- Red Book "AS/400 Electronic Mail Capabilities" (SG24-4703) pp. 184-186 What to
Check When SMTP or POP3 Mail Does Not Work
- Red Book "IBM Firewall for AS/400" (SG24-2162) Appendix C. Mail Concepts
- Red Book "IBM AS/400 TCP/IP Configuration & Operation" (GG24-3442) Ch. 6 SMTP
Problem Analysis
(there was another book but the name escapes me)

The first thing you will want to do is to determine if the problem is with the
AS/400 or the firewall.  If you change the smtp server in your e-mail client to
the secure port on the firewall, does it work?  If so, the firewall is working
and the problem is with the AS/400.  Try restarting smtp on the AS/400;
endmsf
endtcpsvr *smtp
strtcpsvr *smtp
strmsf

There have been a lot of PTFs and they are not on the HIPER bulletins or the cum
CDs.  The latest PTFs for smtp on V4R2 as of June 10 are;
SF53419    1000    5769SS1
SF53541    1000    5769SS1
SF57040    1000    5769SS1
SF55697    1000    5769TC1
SF55704    1000    5769TC1
SF53084    1000    5769TC1

Good luck.

Glenn Gundermann
Ronald A. Chisholm Limited
Toronto

Gerald Magnuson wrote:

> Monday morning I was given a challenge to send an e-mail from the AS/400.
> (conversation went like this:)
> MIS director:  The president needs to see the data first thing every
> morning.
>
> Network Admin:   Well, if the data was on the NT server, we could E-mail it
>                          him.
>
> ME (and my big mouth):   I can do that on the AS/400, no problem....
>
> By Monday at lunch I had it done (which I like to thank members of this
> list).
>
> I am using the QzmfCrtMailMsg api found coded in the news400 nov. 1998
> (SndMail by David Morris)
>
> We have a in-house mail server (Linux) that the mail goes to.
>
> -Cut to Wednesday morning!!!
> I cannot send mail.
>
> I have made sure that the QMSF jobs are running (3).
>
> I have ended and restarted MSF.
>
> There were 1 entry in each of the Distribution Queues (QSMTPQ)
> and they were in failed status. I deleted the entries, held and released the
> queues and they are now in waiting status. These appeared to be messages
> saying that a mail message failed.
>
> I have ran a comm trace on the ethernet, and it appears that the mail data
> is
> not comming out of the AS/400.
>
> I have looked at the QZMF journal and I do not see anything that helps me.
>
> What am I to do???    Where does the mail go when I put it through the API?

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