Re: iSeries as mail server

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

 IBM Is correct. The ***** is your firewall protecting your mail 
server. However that is not stopping inbound mail. I just connected and 
sent a simple message to qsecofr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No idea if that's a 
valid address but it took it.

 You are having problems with outbound side. So option 2) lack of a ptr 
record could be important. There isn't one, I just checked. Some mail 
services won't accept mail from an IP with no ptr.  You are not on any 
blacklists so that's not the issue. Do you have some other mail server 
in the building that can relay for you?  One option is to use CHGSMTPA 
to point outbound mail at another server (i.e. domino or qmail or 
sendmail or postfix or imail or ....) and then just let that server 
deliver the mail.

  Can you send mail to NON cellphone addresses, especially internal 
addresses?

   - Larry

Jeff Crosby wrote:

> > The iSeries is both the inbound and outbound mail server.
> > If I telnet to it on port 25 from _inside_ the LAN, I get:
> > 220 I5.DILGARDFOODS.COM Service ready.
> > If I telnet to it on port 25 from _outside_ the LAN, I get:
> > 220 **********************************
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why this is?  Or how to correct it?  Is it 
> > a firewall/router issue?
> >    
>
> I posted the above the other day, still trying to determine why we can't
> send email to our cellphones from within the LAN, but can from outside the
> LAN.
>
> I opened a Supportline call on the above.  Rochester says the
> ******************** is definitely being put there by the router and/or
> firewall.  The "220 I5.DILGARDFOODS.COM Service ready" is hardcoded on the
> system and not changeable.  Supportline said there are 2 issues that could
> be causing the inability to send to the cellphones:
>
> 1) The **************** being put in by the firewall/router
> 2) The lack of a ptr record for dilgardfoods.com at the ISP (Verizon)
>
> She suggested I tackle them in the above order.   
>
>  

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