[Info-vax] "SEND MAIL" doesn't send mail, mail stays in queue

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-23 07:55:25 +0000, Marco Beishuizen said:

> Alternate-Gateway            : 192.168.178.1
> General-Gateway               : 192.168.178.1

Is your ISP really using 192.168/16 private class C block addresses for 
their IPv4 mail services?   That'd be somewhat unusual.   Or did this 
mistakenly get set to the local IP gateway, and not to the ISP SMTP 
gateway?

> As there is no "Queue-Name" I'm thinking there is something with the 
> mail queue not correctly configured.

It's comparatively difficult to even get mail configured correctly on 
OpenVMS, what with certificates and connection security and DKIM and 
other more modern requirements that OpenVMS knows little or nothing 
about.   But that's further along the path of learning how not to write 
a user interface for most modern expectations, which is where this is 
headed.  Regarding the existence of the mail queues, the 
TCPIP$CONFIG.COM tool manages that for you, occasionally with some 
manual steps for the more complex configurations.  You'll need to 
enable and start the SMTP mail server, minimally.

Off-LAN network routing also already needs to be working for the 
OpenVMS box to send mail.  ssh connections to decuserve.org or such.  
I'll assume that's all been checked already and is working.

Newer servers increasingly require correct DNS, due to security 
requirements.   OpenVMS is too old and too insecure to care about 
correct local DNS translations for itself and other local systems, so 
at least there's that.    Yes, I'm really not a fan of TCP/IP Services. 
  It was good for its time, but requirements have changed and TCP/IP 
Services hasn't kept up.   VSI is working on a replacement with newer 
features, as was previously mentioned.

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