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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

DTL wrote 2012-05-04 14:44:
> Le vendredi 4 mai 2012 10:23, Phillip Helbig  wrote:
> something interesting
>
> and
>
> Le vendredi 4 mai 2012 10:51, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> something interesting too
>
> Thanks, Buddies,
> This is what I have on my system:
>
> TCPIP>  sh conf smtp
>
> SMTP Configuration
>                                                                     Options
> Initial interval:   0 00:30:00.00       Address_max:    16       NOEIGHT_BIT
> Retry interval:     0 01:00:00.00       Hop_count_max:  16       NORELAY
> Maximum interval:   3 00:00:00.00                                TOP_HEADERS
>
> Timeout             Initial       Mail    Receipt       Data  Terminate
>    Send:                   5          5          5          3         10
>    Receive:                5
>
> Alternate gateway:  not defined
> General gateway:    not defined
>
> Substitute domain:  not defined
> Zone:               not defined
>
> Postmaster:         TCPIP$SMTP
> Log file:           SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP_LOGFILE.LOG
>
> Generic queue       Queues   Participating nodes
>
> TCPIP$SMTP_DTL01_00    1     DTL01
> TCPIP>   Exit
> $ ty SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP_LOGFILE.LOG
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%                    3-MAY-2012 15:34:24.63  %%%%%%%%%%%%
> %TCPIP-I-SMTP_LOGSUC, using log file SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP_LOGFILE.LOG
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%                    3-MAY-2012 15:34:24.72  %%%%%%%%%%%%
> %TCPIP-I-SMTP_SYMBRUN, symbiont is running the queue TCPIP$SMTP_DTL01_01
>
> I *never* used SMTP since I started with OpenVMS (we used to say VMS by that time) in 1983.
>
> However, I feel strange about these two "not defined" status.
> Maybe I should start here (and RTFM :-) ?
> No ?

"Alternate gateway" is where SMTP forwards any mails that it can't
deliver itself (within the same subnet as the host). In general
it must be defined. It can be a SMTP server at your ISP or similar
that accepts plain SMTP without TLS och AUTH or similar.

Jan-Erik.