[Info-vax] SMTP Mail, New Features, Documentation (was: Re: Another VMS-BASIC bug?)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-17 11:17:23 +0000, Neil Rieck said:

> ...yesterday I had to turn up a new instance of TCPIP 5.7 (the native 
> stack) on OpenVMS-8.4 which was released June-2010.It was mostly 
> straight forward until I tried to implement SMTP mail...

What little documentation on on the TCP/IP Services V5.7 SMTP server 
configuration changes are included in the V5.7 release notes and 
particularly in the somewhat-arcane comments in the template file.

Some related information and a gotcha or two: 
<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1844> — and entirely inexplicably, 
the default V5.7 behavior is of an open SMTP relay, too.

FWIW and as another change to previous VMS documentation practices, the 
new VMS features that have been latent in a few of the V8.4 UPDATE kits 
are only documented in the patch kit release notes.  AFAIK, these 
enhancements were not been incorporated into other materials or 
documentation, beyond an occasional bulleted list on a slide or web 
page somewhere.

{Now ponders whether replacing the existing TCP/IP Services V5.7 SMTP 
server with the OpenSMTPd daemon might be feasible.}



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