RE: iSeries SMTP error correction

["Bob Crothers" <Bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of rob@dekko.com
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:53 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: iSeries SMTP error correction
> 
> 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>
> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com
> 01/31/2003 02:12 PM
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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
>