RE: Please point me to the Books - dial ISP & exchange E-Mail

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The dial up to the ISP is the easy part - the mail delivery may be more
difficult. Do you intend your ISP to hold all company mail in a single
mailbox and then do you need to pull all mail down from this mailbox for
local distribution by the AS/400 SMTP server? The other option is for
the ISP to treat your AS/400 as a disconnected SMTP server. Now unless
things have changed with the AS/400 SMTP server recently (I don't like
it so I don't use it) you've got a problem. For scenario 1 you need to
have a POP client that will poll the mailbox, pull mail and then forward
it to the AS/400 server. If you want to do this from your AS/400 you'll
either need to write this yourself or buy a product that can do this
(naturally I know of one :-). Your alternative is to use a product like
VPOP on a PC to do this. For scenario 2 (which is a little more risky
because you have to ensure you dial your ISP regularly to avoid mail
delivery failures) you'll need a feature called TURN or ETRN that I
don't believe the 400 SMTP server supports. MS Exchange does support
this. Again if you need to do this on the 400 then I know of a company
that has a cheap little ETRN module.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Vicker, CCP [SMTP:rvicker@vicker.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 7:41 PM
> To:   Midrange List
> Subject:      Please point me to the Books - dial ISP & exchange
> E-Mail
> 
> I've been trying to find this in the softcopies but must be missing
> something.
> 
> Where will I find all the details on how to setup an AS/400 Model 170
> V4R4 (I have V4R2 and V4R3 cds also) to dial an ISP, exchange mail
> then
> hang up? Depending on what can be negotiated with the ISP the incoming
> email accounts may be addressed to their domain or to the customer's
> registered domain.
> 
> Also, can the PPP answer line authorization list be set so that AS/400
> user profiles are automatically included and use their profile
> password?
> Again, all I really need is the right bookmarks to follow.
> 
> Hope to see you all at Fall Common.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Roger Vicker, CCP
> 
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