RE: QtmmSendMail API question

James,

I'm confused about what you may be checking to see if the clients SMTP
server is being used.  You mention WRKTCPSTS, assuming you're looking at
option 3 "Work with TCP/IP Connection Status" and looking at the line
that says "smtp" under local port then I would not expect any activity
for outgoing mail.

What you're seeing there is the listener waiting for incoming mail.

The outgoing mail would go out through some random port.

In any event, your initial questions matches my understanding.  The
QtmmSendMail API talks to the SMTP and QMSF systems on the iSeries.
They need to running.  QtmmSendMail doesn't connect directly to a
receiving SMTP server.  Think of QtmmSendMail like Outlook express, when
you click send, it passes the mail to the configured outgoing SMTP
server.  In this case, the configured server is the one built into
OS/400.

HTH,
Charles


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:02 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: QtmmSendMail API question

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Depends on your definition of 'talk to a mail server'. 
> As far as I know  it uses the native SMTP and QMSF system.
> However it does send email out, via these, to any domain in the world,

> when properly configured.

Something that's got us a bit confused:

One of our customers has the SMTP server up on their 400 (not currently
the case for any of our 400s), and has a front-end command-processing
program to allow them to send email from the command line, using
QtmmSendMail. When they do this, the email goes out, but a WRKTCPSTS
shows no activity on their SMTP server. When the API accesses the SMTP
server, does it bypass TCP entirely? Does the SMTP server even have to
be running?

"We're awake, but we're very, very puzzled."
       -- Blazing Saddles

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JHHL
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