RE: Mail Routing-SMTP server

Hmmm...  I think you're right.  In the dark recesses of my mind I
remember them having to do something with an MX record the last time
they broke this.

I did set up the INTERNET USERS entry, but all it has in it is:
Preferred address . . . :   NETUSRID    *IBM
  Address type  . . . . :   ATCONTXT        

The network guys here always seem to be amazed that we can send email
without using 'their' mail router.

Thanks, Larry!

Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group
 

-----Original Message-----
date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:12:03 -0400
from: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Mail Routing-SMTP server

Get new networking guys?

The issue is on their end most likely. If with Firewall(*YES) your mail 
gets to them then so does your external stuff but they aren't forwarding

that for you. They should play nice and do that. In the other case the 
mail is going outside but not making it to them which smells like a DNS 
issue. That is the iSeries has either the wrong DNS server configured or

it's the correct one but does not properly report the MX record for your

mail server. It should reply with an Internal (i.e. private) IP address 
of the server.

By the way the INTERNET USERS refers to an entry in the WRKDIRE which 
someone (perhaps yourself) has designated as the route to SMTP gateway 
in the CHGDSTA command.

Hope this helps some!

  - Larry

Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> I have been sending alerts to my pager and reports to users for years
> using SMTP with SMTPRTE(INTERNET USERS)
>  
> This weekend our network folks retired an Exchange server and this
> morning no users got their reports.  My network people are telling me
> that I MUST specify a mail router to make this work.  
>  
> If I specify their mail router with FIREWALL(*YES) I can send reports
to
> my internal users.  If I specify their mail router with FIREWALL(*NO)
I
> can send alerts to my pager and outside email addresses.  Of course I
> could also do this just using SMTPRTE(INTERNET USERS)
>  
> What do I need to do to make both work again?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Scott Ingvaldson
> iSeries System Administrator
> GuideOne Insurance Group


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