Re: Mail Routing-SMTP server

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Get new networking guys?

The issue is on their end most likely. If with Firewall(*YES) your mail 
gets to them then so does your external stuff but they aren't forwarding 
that for you. They should play nice and do that. In the other case the 
mail is going outside but not making it to them which smells like a DNS 
issue. That is the iSeries has either the wrong DNS server configured or 
it's the correct one but does not properly report the MX record for your 
mail server. It should reply with an Internal (i.e. private) IP address 
of the server.

By the way the INTERNET USERS refers to an entry in the WRKDIRE which 
someone (perhaps yourself) has designated as the route to SMTP gateway 
in the CHGDSTA command.

Hope this helps some!

 - Larry

Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> I have been sending alerts to my pager and reports to users for years
> using SMTP with SMTPRTE(INTERNET USERS)
>  
> This weekend our network folks retired an Exchange server and this
> morning no users got their reports.  My network people are telling me
> that I MUST specify a mail router to make this work.  
>  
> If I specify their mail router with FIREWALL(*YES) I can send reports to
> my internal users.  If I specify their mail router with FIREWALL(*NO) I
> can send alerts to my pager and outside email addresses.  Of course I
> could also do this just using SMTPRTE(INTERNET USERS)
>  
> What do I need to do to make both work again?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Scott Ingvaldson
> iSeries System Administrator
> GuideOne Insurance Group
>  
>