[Info-vax] TCPWare SMTP Setup

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-28 kl. 16:22, skrev Chris Townley:
> On 28/12/2020 14:44, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-12-28 kl. 14:15, skrev 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> cHRIS
>>
>>
>> Have you tried to run a manual SMTP session?
>>
>> What if you do:
>>
>> $ telnet RELAY.PLUS.NET /port=25
> 
> Failed at the first hurdle - Host not found.

Right... But then a simple "ping" to relay.plus.net would
have failed too, not? You never tried that?

As with all fault tracing, start in the simple end... :-)