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I as usual am late getting into this conversation. However, we are having
similar issues. We find that even though we have the System i set to
forward mail to our Exchange Server, the bounce backs still contain the name
& ip address of our System i. The Application Software vendor says they
don't know any way around this. IBM says we are set up correctly & it is
the software vendors' issue.

I guess I may have to rewrite the program myself and replace the SNDDST
commands with something else (we need to reformat the emails anyway). They
are plain text & not very pretty. However, I don't know where the easiest
place to start is.

Any suggestions?

Debbie Kelemen
chefs Catalog
719-272-2617
www.chefscatalog.com


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: eMail authentication

MTA is "Mail Transfer Agent"... In other words, an SMTP server that
queues mail and transfers it to a recipient's mail server.

From your original message, it sounded like you're using SNDDST and
QtmmSendMail() to send e-mail. Folks who are familiar with these tools
know that they use the LOCAL SMTP server (The one that comes with i5/OS)
as their MTA.

So for authentication to your ISP to make any difference whatsoever, you
must've told your i5/OS SMTP server to forward all e-mails to your ISP's
MTA. Otherwise, it'd never go to the ISP's server, and therefore
whether they used or didn't use authentication would be completely
irrelevant. That's why Walden asked "why not send directly to the
remote MTA" which means, why not send directly to the e-mail recipient's
server instead of sending it to your ISP's server.

The most common reason why you'd want to send to your ISP, instead of
delivering directly (as Walden also pointed out) is when you buy an
Internet connection that wasn't intended to host a business, but rather
was intended to host an end consumer (such as a residential connection).
In that scenario, the ISPs often block e-mail unless it goes through
their servers because they want to stop spam.



Allen wrote:
I can't say why, it's just the way the program were written
to relay the email from the System i (i5, iSeries, AS/400)
to the email server which then sends the email out.

I am not familiar with MTA??

Allen



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