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

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <mja6eq$upk$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> 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.

Regarding absurd: 

Would you call it well behaviour to need to have a SMTP server running
just to get a working SMTP client?

And when you need to have a SMTP server running, and for good reasons
want to restrict it to 127.0.0.1 (instead of 0.0.0.0) you need to
use UCX/TCPIP commands, because the .COM wrappers doesn't support it?

And when you want to use these UCX commands, you unfortunately need to
remove/readd the SMTP service definition, cause these UCX/TCPIP commands
doesn't support modifying the IP address of the service?

I still prefer MX freeware...
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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
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