[Info-vax] TCPIP Services SMTP config problems

[Rich Jordan]

On Oct 11, 2:52 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Rich Jordan wrote 2012-10-10 23:34:
>
> > This seems to be the week for wierd problems.  I think we may have a
> > corrupt TCPIP$CONFIGURATION.DAT file
>
> > Standalone DS20e, OpenVMS Alpha V8.4, TCPIP V5.7 ECO 3, all class 1
> > and 2 ECOs up to April 2012.
>
> Same config (apart from a DS25 instead of DS20e).
>
> Alsp have the SMTP and SMTP_1 queues apart from the "old" _00 and
> _01 (stopped) queues.
>
> Now, I send mails trough a Python hack (since TCPIP SMTP doesn
> do AUTH), so I have not noticed this. neither have I run
> the "rollover tool" that Jeff Goodwin pointed to.
>
> I guess that they added SMTP parameters to the setup and it
> was easier to put them in a text file instead of changing the
> internal format of the SET CONFIG database...
>
> Jan-Erik.

That sounds like its the problem; I do not remember reading that in
the release notes but it is obviously the basis for the problem.