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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-23 15:46:06 +0000, Marco Beishuizen said:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, the wise Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> You are right this isn't correct. It's the IP of my modem/router. The 
> TCPIP$CONFIG didn't alter it after all. I'll change the TCPIP$SMTP.CONF 
> file manually and see what happens.

Nicely-massive monstrously-huge staggeringly-large hole in the UI and 
in the error logging, that one.  Basic testing at startup should at 
least have flagged that as "this host doesn't look like a mail server" 
and with an ensuing demi-blizzard of logging messages, after all.


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