[Info-vax] A second SMTP recevier on an alternate non-prived port.

[Rich Jordan]

On Oct 17, 10:16 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Rich Jordan wrote 2011-10-17 16:50:
>
>
>
> > On Oct 15, 7:57 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> > wrote:
> >> JF Mezei wrote 2011-10-14 20:03:
>
> >>> R.A.Omond wrote:
>
> >>>> I took a quick look at TCPIP$CONFIG.COM and you could edit it
> >>>> replacing all occurrences of SMTP with XMTP, and use your new
> >>>> port number (and then throw the edited procedure away).
>
> >>> Just use the TCPIP>    utility to define a new service.
>
> >> Worked just fine. One TCPIP SET SERVICE and one ENABLE SERVICE did it.
>
> >> Now, it seems as the root problem is solved anyway. Is was some
> >> display-trouble (Outlook displaying all headers as part of the body)
> >> caused be missing Date: and/or Message-Id: headers.
>
> >> Adding them seems to have solved the display trouble.
>
> >> Thanks anyway, and now I know how to setup a second smtp service :-)
>
> >> Jan-Erik.
>
> >>> Do a show service SMTP with all the defails and just create a new
> >>> service based on those details, with different log files and different port.
>
> >>> Remember to make this a permanent definition, and you can also define
> >>> the service to "autostart" in the permanent definitions. I forgot the
> >>> exact syntax.
>
> >>> There is a caveat however: the TCPIP$SMTP_RECEIVER.EXE  *might* be
> >>> hardcoded to use port 25. On the other hand, this exec doesn't run 7/24,
> >>> it is an "on demand" type of service where the image is invoked bt the
> >>> TCPIP kernel when a call to 25 comes in.
>
> >>> You will not be able to have a different config (SMTP.CONFIG) unless you
> >>> play tricks with logical names so that the second instance gets to a
> >>> different logical name table.
>
> > What version of TCPIP Services are you running?  I tried to get an
> > alternate port SMTP setup going years ago on an AlphaServer so I could
> > run the hobbyist Process anti-spam product on a single server, but
> > could never get proper behavior.  I think that was with V5.4-x.  If it
> > works now that provides for some interesting experimentation.
>
> $ tcpip sho ver
>
>    HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6 - ECO 5
>    on an AlphaStation XP900 466 MHz running OpenVMS V8.3
>
> $
>
> I simply did :
>
> $ tcpip set service smtp2 -
>    /port=2552 -
>    /addres=0.0.0.0 -
>    /file=TCPIP$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP2_RECV_RUN.COM -
>    /flag=listen -
>    /limit=5 -
>    /log=(file:sys$specific:[tcpip$smtp]TCPIP$smtp2_recv_run.log, all) -
>    /process_name="TCPIP$SMTP2" -
>    /protocol=TCP -
>    /user_name=tcpip$smtp
>
> And then a "$ tcpip enable service smtp2" and I think that was that.
>
> I never opened up port 2552 in my DSL router, just tryed it using
> a telnet session to localhost/port=2552. Worked fine so far. There
> was no problem sending out mails.
>
> Jan-Erik.

Thank you!  I wonder if I was doing something wrong then or if it was
simply not workable with the older version.  This is excellent since I
don't need to install CGPro when I rebuild my test server (when it
comes home) to do the mail handling (I like CGPro a lot but they just
haven't upgraded it for VMS in far too long).