RE: SMTP IP Address

Use CHGSMTPA (F4) to review the SMTP configuration for the "mail router"
attribute.  Most likely, you'll see your mail router listed as SMTPGATE,
which then is resolved for IP address in your hosts table.  Instead of using
this host lookup entry, simply change the mail router to your mail.xxxx.com
name.

You will need to end and restart the SMTP server to have the new config take
effect.  

This method presumes that your DNS entries for mail.xxxx.com will change
during DR to point to the backup site.  

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+edelong=sallybeauty.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+edelong=sallybeauty.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Ricky Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:38 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: SMTP IP Address


Our corporate office is located in Florida (you know the place with all the
hurricanes).  Anyway we have our AS/400 setup to forward e-mail to our mail
server in Florida via the IP Address.  But whenever a hurricane comes we
switch to a backup mail server. The way I have our AS/400 setup is in CFGTCP
option 10 I have a Host Table entry called SMTPGATE that points to that IP
address.  Is there a way to have this point to our mail.xxxx.com name
instead of the IP address?  That way all mail, when we change our DNS to
point to our secondary mail server, will go straight there without making
any changes to the Host Table?