Re: IBM i SMTP email service

Hi Nathan,

We use PHPMailer which I believe uses Zend's built-in mail binary - but I wouldn't swear to that.

Maybe Mike or Erwin can chime in and answer your question.

I should mention that I missed a step. We had moved away from the IBM i SMTP server a long time back due to reliability and debugging issues. Immediately prior to switching to G-suite we were using iDevCloud's mail server (whatever that is). We then switched away from that because getting it set up so that we weren't running foul of gmail and other spam barriers was just proving too time consuming. Switching to G-suite made all those problems go away for a very small monthly fee!


Jon Paris

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On Jan 23, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We originally used the SMTP services for email but, as Brad I'm sure will
attest, it was just too much work when things went adrift. Subsequently we
switched to using PHP for mail - which was a breeze to use and much more
reliable.

Jon,

You say that you switch from IBM i SMTP to PHP. But I'm wondering if you
just switched from something like the IBM i SNDDST command to the PHP
mail() function. I think the distinction is important.

Most email APIs will simply forward messages to a separate, local service,
then return control to the originator. That separate local service runs
asynchronously and manages the communications, encryption, retries, and
final error / completion logging, which your email application may never
know about. That separate local service is called an SMTP client. And a
fairly robust one is bundled with IBM i. It runs as a pool of pre-start
jobs that may be servicing requests from multiple applications.

I wonder if the implementation of the PHP mail() command on IBM i actually
relays messages to the IBM i SMTP client under the covers? I couldn't find
any documentation on that. If not, then what SMTP client does it use?
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