[Info-vax] upgrading from VMS 7.3-2 and TCPIP 5.4 ECO 7 to VMS 8.4 and TCPIP 5.7

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mjampk$27va$1 at news.kjsl.com>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> > Operating as an open relay is one of the most truly absurd default 
> > settings I've ever encountered for a modern SMTP mail server, too.
> 
> I agree that it's not a good default.  Mine came up as NORELAY, 
> presumably because that is what I had before.
> 
> In those events---which should be rare---that a change of basic 
> configuration-file formats or whatever is needed, then I too would 
> expect that it should just work out of the box, inheriting the old 
> settings.  I'll have to investigate more.  I had read so much about how 
> SMTP had changed and that this wasn't documented that I was expecting 
> the worst.

It looks like the new TCPIP$SMTP.CONF took over stuff from
TCPIP$CONFIGURATION.DAT (set with TCPIP> SET CONF SMTP) as well as stuff 
from SMTP.CONFIG (which is presumably obsolete now).

Does anyone know the reasoning behind this?  I liked the SET and SHOW 
commands better than editing a text file by hand.  Hopefully other stuff 
one can set and show with TCPIP> commands won't change to configuration 
files which one has to edit by hand?!