RE: AS/400 SMTP mail problems

["Wilton Rooks" <wrooks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It could be that the ISP handling the recipient address will not accept mail
from a domain name not registered with InterNIC, whereas your ISP doesn't
care and will gladly send it. The AS400 host.domain.com SMTP name structure
results in an unregisted domain name sometimes, unless you have specifically
registered the full name (not just the domain part). Not sure if this is the
reason, but it would account for why the same address can receive mail from
your non-AS400 e-mail system, but not from your AS400 system. The 'from'
address on your non-AS400 e-mail is probably just dsplink.com, whereas the
'from' address on your as400 is going to be hostname.dsplink.com.

Various ISPs handle this issue differently. It all has to do with spam
control.

Wilton Rooks
Net400, Inc.
wrooks@net400.com
http://www.net400.com
Tel. 904 826 1491
Fax. 904 826 0449
             ****** AS/400 E-mail Integration Specialists *******

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Neil Palmer
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 7:43 PM
> To: 'Midrange-L'
> Subject: AS/400 SMTP mail problems
>
>
> Is anyone having problems using their AS/400 to send e-mail where
> mail to most addresses works, but mail to certain addresses
> consistently fails with somethng like:
>
> NOT ABLE TO DELIVER MAIL TO SOME/ALL RECIPIENTS.
> REPLY CODES WITH FIRST DIGIT = '4' OR '5' ARE ERROR REPLIES.
> ERRORS THAT DO NOT HAVE ERROR REPLY CODES MAY EXIST.
>
> HOST DPS NOT ABLE TO DELIVER MAIL TO FOLLOWING RECIPIENT(S):
>    <Soucy@petro-canada.ca>
> RETRIES EXHAUSTED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CONNECT TO REMOTE HOST petro-canada.
>
>
>
> Yet you can send e-mail to these addresses from non-AS/400 e-mail
> systems with no problem.
>
>
>
>
> Neil Palmer         DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd.
>                                              AS/400~~~~~
> Thornhill, Ontario,  Canada    ___________          ___  ~
> Phone: (905) 731-9000  x238   |OOOOOOOOOO| ________  o|__||=
> Cell.: (416) 565-1682  x238   |__________|_|______|_|______)
> Fax:   (905) 731-9202          oo      oo   oo  oo   OOOo=o\
> mailto:NeilP@DPSlink.com    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> http://www.DPSlink.com        AS/400  The Ultimate Business Server
>
>
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