[Info-vax] TCPWare SMTP Setup

[Chris Townley]

On 28/12/2020 11:57, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rsceu2$eae$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
> <news at cct-net.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> Having completely failed to get this running under TCP/IP I thought I
>> would try under TCPWare - V6.0-0 under OpenVMS V8.4-2L1
>>
>> I am trying to simply enable sending via my ISPs SMTP server, which I
>> had done many tears ago under VMS 7.3 with TCPWare, and ISTR under VMS
>> 8.3 with TCP/IP services, but so far getting nowhere!
> 
> So you have sent outgoing mail via a TCPIP relay server before?
> 
Yes, although not on the machines I am playing with - they are boty 
fresh installs of VSI 8.4-2L1 on FreeAXP - 1 with TCPWare and one with 
TCP/IP Services

>> Cam anybody point me to some sort of Noddy goes SMTP document? All the
>> documentation I can find explains bits, but not how to do it
> 
> TCPIP> SET CONFIG SMTP/GATEWAY=ALTERNATE=<name of relay server>
> 

Have played with this, as well as /GATEWAY=GENERAL-<> but either qway 
the send job is queued up, then disapp;ears to be repokaced by another 
job. All I see in the log is:

$ type SYS$SYSROOT:[TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP_VSIALP.LOG;38

%%%%%%%%%%%%                   28-DEC-2020 12:28:56.19  %%%%%%%%%%%%
%TCPIP-I-SMTP_LOGSUC, using log file TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON:TCPIP$SMTP_VSIALP.LOG

%%%%%%%%%%%%                   28-DEC-2020 12:28:56.22  %%%%%%%%%%%%
%TCPIP-I-SMTP_SYMBRUN, symbiont is running the queue TCPIP$SMTP_VSIALP_1

_VSIALP$DKA100:[TOWNLEYC]20122812391730_TOWNLEYC-131.TCPIP_VSIALP;1
From: townleyc at vsialp.cct-net.co.uk
To: cctownley at gmail.com
Requeued.

_VSIALP$DKA100:[TOWNLEYC]20122812391730_TOWNLEYC-131.TCPIP_VSIALP;1
From: townleyc at vsialp.cct-net.co.uk
To: cctownley at gmail.com
Requeued.

_VSIALP$DKA100:[TOWNLEYC]20122812391730_TOWNLEYC-131.TCPIP_VSIALP;1
From: townleyc at vsialp.cct-net.co.uk
To: cctownley at gmail.com
Requeued.

Which is not much use!

I have the following setup:

$ tcpip show config smtp /full

SMTP Configuration
                                                                    Options
Initial interval:   0 00:30:00.00       Address_max:    16       EIGHT_BIT
Retry interval:     0 01:00:00.00       Hop_count_max:  16       RELAY
Maximum interval:   3 00:00:00.00                                TOP_HEADERS

Timeout             Initial       Mail    Receipt       Data  Terminate
   Send:                   5          5          5          3         10
   Receive:                5

Alternate gateway:  RELAY.PLUS.NET
General gateway:    RELAY.PLUS.NET

Substitute domain:  not defined
Zone:               not defined

Postmaster:         TCPIP$SMTP
Log file:           SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP_LOGFILE.LOG

Generic queue       Queues   Participating nodes

TCPIP$SMTP_VSIALP_00   1     VSIALP
$


where RELAY.PLUS.NET is my ISPs SMTP server - they do not require 
authentication if coming from one of their addresses.



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