RE: SNDDST problem emailing internally

["Richard" <rallen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

Thanks for the suggestions, I have a couple of question about your reply..

Could you explain why or when I would/should use Host name search priority
*LOCAL versus *REMOTE as mentioned in your reply?

Could you elaborate on "your mail software has an alias of mail" is that
something I should know about our mail? Is this something you chose to have
or your mail software is just written that way? Could you explain what a
mail alias is and what it is used for?

When I tested using TELNET to my mail server I did use Port 25 when I got
the error message "sosrv35.xxxx.xxxx.ops.us.uu.net ESMTP not accepting
messages"              


Thanks

John


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Ross
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:41 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SNDDST problem emailing internally

Look at   CHGTCPDMN  (f4)  does this look like
Host name search priority  . . .   *LOCAL
if it does not have to be *LOCAL change it to *REMOTE I do not think 
anything needs to be restarted. I am not for sure what all it looks at 
when *LOCAL (some are going to say the host file, but I feel it is more 
then that), but it tries to deliver the mail to the AS400.

Another thing I do is my mail software has an alias of mail so I add 
that to the address spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that forces it to host of mail 
instead of looking for MX records or an A record

I am not sure what the message means you did not say if you telneted on 
port 25 (SMTP) (not the default port for telnet port 23) and if you got 
it right away. I could telnet in on port 25 but not 23

John Ross

John Allen wrote:

> I know this has been covered before, and I have read through many messages
> in the archives but have not found the solution.
> 
> I have set up our AS/400 to use SNDDST and I can send emails to people
> outside of our domain (such as georeg@xxxxxxxxx or frank@xxxxxxx)
> But I cannot send emails to anyone in our company (example to myself)
> 
> I see in the archives that I should try to telnet to our mail server and I
> attempted that. I get a message:
> sosrv35.xxxx.xxxx.ops.us.uu.net ESMTP not accepting messages              
> I cannot find in the archives what this message means (I am not a telnet
or
> SMTP guru)
> 
> Can anyone point me to the next step I should take in trouble shooting
this.
> 1) Why can I send emails outside but not within our company
> 2) What does the telnet message mean?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance you have to offer


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