[Info-vax] $ mail/subj="test" NL: smtp%"John.Doe at gmail.com" failed

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<2446893.24.1336113088162.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at vbez18>, DTL
<didier.morandi at gmail.com> writes: 

> I enabled my SMTP Client for
> 
>   DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6
>   on a DEC 3000 Model 400 running OpenVMS V8.3
> 
> but command 
> 
> $  mail/subj="test" NL: smtp%"John.Doe at gmail.com" 
> 
> failed "gracefully" (no error messages on screen)
> Mail did not go through.
> I checked my spam box, nothing.
> Where should I start my investigations, please?

SMTP log files.  You might want to define some stuff in 
TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON:SMTP.CONFIG to allow more verbose messages.

I define TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON as a search list:

   "TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON" = "SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
        = "CLUSTER_TCPIP_SMTP"
1  "CLUSTER_TCPIP_SMTP" = "CLUSTER_DISK:[SYSTEM.TCPIP_SMTP]" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)

The first definition is the default one.  CLUSTER_DISK is a non-system 
disk which has stuff common to all nodes like SYSUAF etc.