Re: SMTP troubles (AGAIN!)

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That setting has nothing to do with if you have a firewall.

It simply tells the SMTP server to use the mail router
speicified (and IMHO is a terrible name for that parm...)

If you can't ping yahoo or anything from your AS/400, and
you're not using a mail router, that could be the issue. 

You need to use CFGTCP option 12 to enter DNS servers so
you can resolve domain names (and thus find MX records for
recipients for your email).

But, if you HAVE a mail router, you SHOULD be using it.

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:31:59 -0700
 "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fritz Hayes <fhayes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What I meant was that the parm MAILROUTER was blank and
> 
> >FIREWALL was NO. 
> 
> But all our 400s are behind the firewall. If FIREWALL is 
> *NO, is it going to be able to get out?
> 
> Also, I can't currently PING my personal ISP, or 
> www.google.com, from either of our 2 main 
> network-connected 400s. I can, however, ping them from
> the 
> PC I'm typing this from. And so far, none of my attempts 
> to send email from any 400 have borne any fruit.
> 
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> JHHL
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
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