Re: Back to Reverse DNS (POP before SMTP)

[John Ross <jross-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement wrote:

> Does that help?  Or are you asking something else completely?

Yes that is what I was asking. And I knew most of that stuff but when I 
tried it (once) it did not work and not knowing enough about sockets I 
figured it had to be something like starting on the POP port and then 
not closing the connection and getting on the SMTP port 25. But from 
what you say I should be able to telnet in on POP (110) sign in, exit 
and then start a new telnet session on SMTP (25) and send email 
(provided I enter the commands it is expecting during both sessions and 
before the time out period)? If that is the case I will have to try it 
again.

If this is the case I would think with nat the public IP address would 
show it being authenticated a lot (if PC clients are pointed to the 
outgoing.verzion.net and authenticating) and allow the AS400 to get 
through at least once in a while, just by chance (I know not the way you 
would want it to work).

You could also put the pop program in a CL along with the SNDDST (or 
your own program for SMTP) for sending messages to cell phones, not for 
the whole AS400 mail server.

Thanks
John Ross