Once more unto the **AS/400 MAIL** breach...

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Joel,

Check the QTSMTPSRVD job.

There is a line that looks like this:
    Queued outgoing distributions: 7 and queued incoming distributions: 0

This means there are 7 messages that have failed to negotiate with another 
system. It does NOT mean that there are 7 messages in
QSMTPBOX. It could be that the leading message has a damaged header and is 
causing a bottleneck. If the status is the same after 30
minutes (or whatever the retry interval is), time to do a little cleanup. 
CHGSMTPA is the command to check the retry intervals.

When the data area has been created in QUSRSYS and SMTP restarted, there will 
be a line like this preceding the above line:
    Object QTMSCLEAN in QUSRSYS type *DTAARA deleted.

On our system the data area is in a utility library and gets duped to QUSRSYS 
when their appears to be a problem. The only time the
queue numbers can be obtained is when SMTP is started.

Do this before doing a *clear on MSF. Doing  *clear on MSF can leave messages 
stranded in SMTPBOX requiring manual intervention. If
doing a clear, end SMTP and make sure nothing is in SMTPBOX.

Hope this helps. We send and receive several thousand messages every day on a 
170 running V5R1. This is our 4th year running SMTP on
an AS/400.


Terri


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> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> From: Mike Buglass <mike.buglass@dcs-ei.com>
> Subject: Re: Once more unto the **AS/400 MAIL** breach...
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:31:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Organization: no
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> "Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@masi-brac.com> wrote in
> 217378E70C7AD411B0000050042195981A9752@MASISBS:">news:217378E70C7AD411B0000050042195981A9752@MASISBS:
>
> > When I do a WRKLNK 'QTCPTMM/MAIL' I have no mail folders.  Is
> > there another place I should be clearing out?  I stopped MSF and
> > restarted it with *CLEAR. I stopped and restarted SMTP.  Still no
> > e-mail, no joblogs, no messages, nada.  Really reaching the end of
> > my rope here.
> >
> > I did find out this morning that our BP had LICPGM 5722XW1 deleted
> > from our system a couple of days ago.  As I understand it, it is
> > an older Client Access program, but could this cause my problem in
> > any way?
> >
> > Grasping at straws...
> >
> > Joel R. Cochran
> > Director of Internet Services
> > VamaNet.com
> > (800)480-8810
> > mailto:webmaster@vamanet.com
>
> Joel,
>
> I do not know if it is still used at v5r1 but you can "pop" the first
> message off the SMTP queue by creating a dataarea in QUSRSYS called
> QTMSCLEAN (1 char) with a value of "W" then restarting SMTP. This
> normally unsticks it. If you use a "C" instead of "W" then all messages
> on the queue are deleted.  The data area is removed by the SMTP server
> when it is started.
>
> The LICPGM 5722XW1 is NOT an older client access program. It is the
> product that client access licenses are attached to and without it you
> cannot use the licensed parts of CA.  It should not impact on your mail
> problem though.
>
> --
> Mike Buglass
>
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