Re: IBM i as email relay

There is currently no certificate assigned to the SMTP server or the SMTP
client.

We have the needed certificate installed but cannot assign it. When we (my
support people) try to assign a certificate to the SMTP *CLIENT* the one we
need to assign does not show up. It's as if a step was missed or
something. The support people are opening a ticket with IBM so we can all
be on the call at the same time.

Did you mean certificates for the SMTP *SERVER* not being in place? Or the
SMTP client? The IBM document the support people are using says SMTP
client.

And . . . both the telnet server and telnet client have a certificate
applied.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 1:26 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jeff,

Am 12.08.2024 um 15:29 schrieb Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I remembered it took a while before the IBM i responded with the

"service ready" message.

What do you mean with "a while"? My venerable (but mostly idle) 150 needs
three seconds from pressing return to the initial greeting message to
appear. With no prior use.

So I did a telnet this morning, from the IBM i,

What exactly did you do? Connect to localhost? Or the address of one of
the ethernet lines?

I wonder what would happen if I did it from Windows with Putty and just

waited?

Try and see?

Sure enough, after about 90 seconds, the service ready message popped up.

Something's definitely not right here.

Now the question is why so long? If I telnet with port 23, the response

is almost instant.

Next step would be to look out for job logs of the SMTP service itself.
There can be a multitude of reasons. Maybe this is related to certificates
for the SMTP server not being in place?

:wq! PoC



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