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

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For completeness and to add to Larry's comment if you use Barracuda and
other mail relay appliances then the issue of using MSF or not goes away
because the mail relay appliance does all the heavy lifting. Just bounce
the emails to the appliance and off they go with auditing in place.

Inbound mails come in through the appliance and get relayed into the IBMi
mailboxes, Domino or Exchange.

More and more shops are going to the cloud and just use web interfaces or
set up their pc email clients to send/receive using that cloud server.

Problem solved without purchasing any new IBMi software in most cases if
you already have working utilities from Brad or any other vendor.

Not if that relay appliance is in the cloud or requires authentication and
or SSL/TLS. That's the main point here, Richard. And that's the main
reason I have so many customers using MAILTOOL Plus and other addons to
work with specific email APIs.

Yes, the IBM i will work sending email if there's no
authentication/credentials or security layer needed. But not if you need
to use specific user accounts and a mail relay that requires credentials,
SSL, etc.

Regards,


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

-----Original Message-----

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!

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