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

[Neil Rieck]

On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:44:17 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2014-09-17 11:17:23 +0000, Neil Rieck said:
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> > ...yesterday I had to turn up a new instance of TCPIP 5.7 (the native 
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> > stack) on OpenVMS-8.4 which was released June-2010.It was mostly 
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> > straight forward until I tried to implement SMTP mail...
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> What little documentation on on the TCP/IP Services V5.7 SMTP server 
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> configuration changes are included in the V5.7 release notes and 
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> particularly in the somewhat-arcane comments in the template file.
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> Some related information and a gotcha or two: 
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> <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1844> -- and entirely inexplicably, 
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> the default V5.7 behavior is of an open SMTP relay, too.
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> FWIW and as another change to previous VMS documentation practices, the 
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> new VMS features that have been latent in a few of the V8.4 UPDATE kits 
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> are only documented in the patch kit release notes.  AFAIK, these 
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> enhancements were not been incorporated into other materials or 
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> documentation, beyond an occasional bulleted list on a slide or web 
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> page somewhere.
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> {Now ponders whether replacing the existing TCP/IP Services V5.7 SMTP 
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> server with the OpenSMTPd daemon might be feasible.}
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> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

Yep, I visited your site yesterday. It was very informative.

Neil