RE: SMTP V5R1 - QTSMTPSRVP and QTSMTPCLTP -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks to Oliver, Douglas and James for their inputs on this issue.

I will pass on to the administrator the collective advice I've gleaned
here.  I'm just a peon on this system.

The iSeries should not be relaying mail, but I cannot verify whether that
capability has been configured out.  I can say that it's intended to be
configured as send-only, not allowing for any inbound connections per
firewall rules, thus, I believe, eliminating that possibility.

NETSTAT option 3 shows a ton of connections to port 1352, all
network-internal, all associated with USRPRF(QNOTES), all with job
nnnnnn/QNOTES/SERVER.  I can find no other information about these.  These
add to my confusion.

I cannot CHGSTPA - when I exercise that command, all parms show *SAME, and
the message at the bottom says, "Current values could not be retrieved."
So I'll just have to rely on the administrator to deal with this.

Thanks again for your inputs.
Dennis




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Dennis -

If the system should not be relaying mail, make sure CHGSMTPA
ALWRLY(*NONE) is set.  It's possible you're being used unwittingly as an
email relay for a spammer.

We don't do email on our 400s so perhaps others who do can speak to this
better than I.

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Lovelady [mailto:dlovelady@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:05 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SMTP V5R1 - QTSMTPSRVP and QTSMTPCLTP


Hi, Midrangers:

On our V5R1 Development system, we've started to notice that the jobs
QTSMTPSRVP and QTSMTPCLTP are consuming, between them, about 50% to 60%
of the CPU.  We're not doing any major SMTP mail (that we're aware of,
anyway), and consequently do not understand why these jobs may be
consuming so much resource.

The next three jobs down in order of CPU consumption are:
   AMGR         QNOTES      BCI     3.6
   EVENT        QNOTES      BCI     1.3
   SERVER       QNOTES      BCI     1.2

Rather suspiciously also indicating some sort of e-mail activity, I
*THINK* but we're also not running any agents we're aware of..... This
particular NOTES instance has been installed (long ago) for support of a
proposed application, but it's not in place.

Can any of you shed any light on this anomoly?

Thanks,
Dennis