iSeries SMTP error correction

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

James Rich,

You speak the truth about iSeries SMTP serving.

Has anyone found a good source for error recovery from the SMTP not 
sending?

Normally I try steps like
ENDMSF
ENDTCPSVR *SMTP
STRTCPSVR *SMTP
STRMSF

and if that doesn't work,

ENDMSF
ENDTCPSVR *SMTP
STRTCPSVR *SMTP
STRMSF *RESET

which isn't so bad.  But sometimes you resort to:

ENDMSF
ENDTCPSVR *SMTP
STRTCPSVR *SMTP
STRMSF *CLEAR

Which basically says "I didn't give a rip about those hundreds of emails 
to our users and customers, just trash them.".

If no one has a good source, care to write up a faq and post it to 
faq.midrange.com?

I am getting sorely tempted to find someone who has written a call to the 
Domino api's to send out an email.  At least from there you get better 
message tracking.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




James Rich <james@eaerich.com>
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Booth Martin wrote:

> It sure would be nice if someone could ring Anne Lucas's bell and get
> someone at IBM interested enough so that David could show us how to do
> midrange.com on an iSeries.
>
> We ought to eat our own cooking.

Except that the software that runs midrange.com doesn't exist on the
iSeries.  David uses sendmail with SpamAssasin.  Whatever spam filtering
software exists for the iSeries probably isn't as cheap (sendmail and
SpamAssasin are free).  And honestly, judging by the number of posts on
this list about the iSeries SMTP server, I don't think that the iSeries is
a very good mail server.

Eating your own cooking (or eating your own dogfood) does not always mean
ignore the rule "use the best tool for the job".

James Rich

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