Re: Email direct from IBM i without relay (was: New lower cost IBM i announced

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 7:57 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think in today's world using an email appliance like you're doing
for the actual message exchange is paramount to making sure stuff
exchanges cleanly.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT Richard. It gives you trackability, ant-spam filtering,
anti-virus filtering, and a single point to troubleshoot. We do this with
low end Barracuda products and have loved them for that.

I am in these things almost daily looking up why this or that mail didn't
get to its destination. Mostly you get a nice message that's pretty clear
as to what's happening. You don't get that with IBM's SMTP for sure and
even if you have another tool like Brad's that only fixes the i, not all
the other stuff in your network that might need to send mail.

Slight correction.. MAILTOOL Plus (and my other addons for MAILTOOL) don't
"fix" the i, they totally bypasses that which is the IBM SMTP/MSF system.
:)

But, if all of your devices use the same mail router/relay, including the
i, that should make things much easier to track down when you have issues.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
Native IBM i e-Mail solutions for Microsoft Office 365, Gmail, or any Cloud
Provider!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 2/17/2017 8:49 AM, Richard Schoen wrote:

Have you ever had a Blacklist issue ?

We got on one of the Blacklists several years back and it took several
days to clear it because mail appliances all check those before sending.

That was fun.


Regards,


Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related
questions.

Help support midrange.com by shopping at amazon.com with our affiliate
link: http://amzn.to/2dEadiD