Re: Emailing from the Iseries through an outside ips

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:58:22 -0800, Terry Nonamaker
<TNonamaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I may not ask this correctly, so bear with me and read between the lines if
> you can.
> 
> Currently we email out of the as400 by relaying though our mail server on
> the network.
> 
> . we do not use the pop server on the as400. We only send, and we do not
> receive.
> 
> Over the past several months we have had a lot of problems with viruses on
> our network email server.
> 
> .. Despite the fact that we have tried everything under the sun to stop it.
> It is taking too much of our time.
> 
> .. We are moving to an outside isp to host our email . sooner than I
> anticipated.
> 
> .. The isp is "1on1". On our network email each user has a secondary email
> user id and logon to them.

Is the contract signed?  If not, perhaps they should consider an
alternative - an external "routing" company that acts as an
intermediary and does spam and virus checking.  We use MailWatch
(www.mailwatch.com) and it is pretty good - it costs $200/month.

> .. There actual email address as far as our network is concerned stays the
> same.
> 
> .. Most of this part doesn't matter, as no email goes out of the as400 under
> an actual user name
> 
> ... everything goes as a common user name, and errors comes back to that one
> which gets forwarded internally
> 
> My ? is
> 
> What do I need to change in order to send out email though this isp. I'm not
> the one setting up the email for our network, but I do have to make the
> as400 work as always, which has been great up to now.

The simplest approach ... continue to use relaying - then no account
is needed.  Their administrators should be able to allow relaying for
specific IP addresses.
- get the IP address of the mail server for your account from 1&1
- have 1&1 allow relaying from the AS/400 address
- CHGSMTPA MAILROUTER (1&1 IP address) FIREWALL(*YES)
   --> This will force all outgoing mail to be routed to that server

If 1&1 is unwilling to allow relaying at all, then you will have to
instead have the SMTP server be a traditional mail server.
- CHGSMTPA MAILROUTER(*NONE) FIREWALL(*NO)
- make sure that the AS/400 has proper DNS server addresses
   --> CHGTCPDMN  INTNETADR(DNS server addresses)
   --> You may also want to add a route for MAIL.yourdomain.com to the
AS400 host table with CFGTCP, option 10

-- 
Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx