Re: Back to Reverse DNS

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> How is this different from
> CHGSMTPA MAILROUTER('outgoing.verizon.net') FIREWALL(*YES)
> Looks to me option 1 will get to outgoing.verizon.net and then
> outgoing.verizon.net will reject it as being relayed mail.

Maybe I don't understand the problem at all...  For some reason I have a
really hard time understanding humans.  Computers are easy, people are
very hard to understand.

My understanding was that the iSeries worked for the specific cell phones
that he was trying to send the mail to when it was relaying through
outgoing.verizon.net --  but that this breaks everything else.  And
that's what this suggestion was based on.

If the cell phones don't work when sending to outgoing.verizon.net, then
you're right, this won't do anything different.

> And what is his program going to tell outgoing.verizon.net that the
> AS400 SMTP is not telling it. Even if you meant go to cwemail.com mail
> server I do not see what his program could tell their mail server so it
> does not think it is spam.

Okay.  Why does the outlook mail client work, but the iSeries not?  I
thought that the reason was that the outlook mail client was going
to outgoing.verizon.net .. and that the iSeries couldn't do that because
it broke other mail aside from the cell phone mail?

Writing a program would allow you to bypass the iSeries mail server.  But,
if nothing works going through outgoing.verizon.net, then it won't solve
the problem.

My suggestions are based on the idea that the outlook client works because
it's sending directly to outgoing.verizon.net -- and that the only reason
he's not setting up his iSeries this way is because it breaks something
else.  At any rate, if the outlook client is working, you should be able
to write an iSeries program that does the exact same thing.

Maybe I'm just not understanding the situation.  That's certainly possible
-- the information, which has been sketchy at best, has been split across
10+ messages and even across threads.  I get upwards of 300 e-mails a day,
and I so may just be confused.


> I think he would be better off checking what kind of authentication
> verizion will accept. POP before SMTP or clear text would be my only
> hope (I am not that good at encryption) and then write a program to
> handle it.

I didn't even know that POP before SMTP was an option?!  The problem with
POP before SMTP is that you need the ISP to support it, it's not something
that you can do entirely on your side.  If the ISP supports it and it
solves the problem, then great, do that.