Re: iSeries as mail server -- MIDRANGE-L

Jeff,

IBM Is correct. The ***** is your firewall protecting your mail server. However that is not stopping inbound mail. I just connected and sent a simple message to qsecofr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No idea if that's a valid address but it took it.

You are having problems with outbound side. So option 2) lack of a ptr record could be important. There isn't one, I just checked. Some mail services won't accept mail from an IP with no ptr. You are not on any blacklists so that's not the issue. Do you have some other mail server in the building that can relay for you? One option is to use CHGSMTPA to point outbound mail at another server (i.e. domino or qmail or sendmail or postfix or imail or ....) and then just let that server deliver the mail.

Can you send mail to NON cellphone addresses, especially internal addresses?

   - Larry

Jeff Crosby wrote:

The iSeries is both the inbound and outbound mail server.
If I telnet to it on port 25 from _inside_ the LAN, I get:
220 I5.DILGARDFOODS.COM Service ready.
If I telnet to it on port 25 from _outside_ the LAN, I get:
220 **********************************

Can anyone tell me why this is? Or how to correct it? Is it a firewall/router issue?


I posted the above the other day, still trying to determine why we can't
send email to our cellphones from within the LAN, but can from outside the
LAN.

I opened a Supportline call on the above.  Rochester says the
******************** is definitely being put there by the router and/or
firewall.  The "220 I5.DILGARDFOODS.COM Service ready" is hardcoded on the
system and not changeable.  Supportline said there are 2 issues that could
be causing the inability to send to the cellphones:

1) The **************** being put in by the firewall/router
2) The lack of a ptr record for dilgardfoods.com at the ISP (Verizon)

She suggested I tackle them in the above order.

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