Re: iSeries SMTP error correction

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

>From an issue with this, (IBM's response)

ACTION TAKEN: From the symptoms that you are receiving it appears that 
              there could be a bad e-mail in the QMSF job. 
              You are correct, the msgMCH0601 isn't cool. It normally 
              indicates that you may have been used as an open relay 
              by spammers. Therefore, your SMTP server jobs have many, 
              many undeliverable e-mails. The msgmch0601 indicates that 
              we are processing over a million mail objects and the 
              SMTP server is in recovery trying to match FSO's and 
              MCB's. We have seen this with Spam attacks and also with 
              a recovery after a system failure. 
              To fix this you may want to do a SMTP cold start using 
              the following steps: 
              1- ENDTCPSVR *SMTP 
              2- ENDTCPSVR *POP 
              3- ENDMSF 
              4- CRTDTAARA  DTAARA(QUSRSYS/QTMSCLEAN)  TYPE(*CHAR)  + 
                 LEN(1)  VALUE('c')  AUT(*ALL) 
                 (Note :a 'c' for cold and a 'W' for warm) 
              5- STRTCPSVR *SMTP 
              6- STRTCPSVR *POP 
              7- STRMSF *CLEAR 
                 (Note: *CLEAR will delete all non-delivered e-mail 
                  still being processed by QMSF, including good e-mail.)
. 
              The cold start is documented at the following URL: 
              http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/slkbase 
              then search for doc # 12751331. 
              If you want to see if this is spam e-mail give us 
              a call at 1-800-IBM-SERV and refer to this PMR and 
              we can run some MSF journaling. 
              Also, if you are open relay and you want to restrict open 
              relay search for doc # 26471302 at the URL listed above. 

Rob Berendt
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