[Info-vax] TCPIP Services SMTP config problems

[Steven Schweda]

> The system had a bare SMTP config set up  for sending mail.  The
> customer needed it changed to use a 'smarthost' for all email bound
> offsite (a common request and often required by the ISP).

> TCPIP$SMTP  (generic pointing to TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_1
> TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_1
> TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_00   (generic pointing to TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_01
> TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_01

   My VMS system handles my e-mail itself, so I have no smart
host, so I know nothing, but around here, the queue set is
simpler:

alp $ show queue TCPIP$SMTP*_alp_*
Generic server queue TCPIP$SMTP_ALP_00

Server queue TCPIP$SMTP_ALP_01, idle, on ALP::, mounted form DEFAULT

Server queue TCPIP$SMTP_ALP_02, idle, on ALP::, mounted form DEFAULT

That is, nothing like a plain TCPIP$SMTP or a
TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_1.

> The first two queues are the active ones; all email process through
> generic TCPIP$SMTP to TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_1; the other two queues, which
> appear to have the correct and expected names, are not active.  The
> GENERIC queue defined in SMTP config matches the second generic queue,
> which is not used.
>
> However when we ran @SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$SMTP_SHUTDOWN, the TCPIP
> $SMTP_NODE_1 queue does not stop or go into stopping state; it remains
> idle.

   Perhaps because it doesn't fit the pattern ("_%%"), so
TCPIP doesn't deal with it?

> Generic queue       Queues   Participating nodes
>
> TCPIP$SMTP_NODE_00      1     NODE

   Mine says:

TCPIP$SMTP_ALP_00      2     ALP