Re: SMTP troubles (AGAIN!)

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tom Jedrzejewicz" <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> QGATE@xxxxxxxxxxx is the standard "server" email address 
> for the iSeries SMTP server.  What is happening is that
> the iSeries SMTP server is contacting the mail router (in
> this case Exchange) to transfer the message
> for delivery.

Except that the Java application, at least in theory, 
isn't going anywhere near the box's own SMTP server; it's 
using JavaMail to (again, at least in theory) contact the 
outside mail server directly. So why would QGATE even be 
involved in the bounce?

If the mail server were still a dedicated machine, then 
yes, presumably we could move it inside the firewall, and 
configure it and/or the firewall so that the web-mail 
shows up from the outside on (say) Port 8080. I've seen 
that before. Unfortunately, for the moment, our mail 
server is running on a box that, for various other reasons 
to which I'm not privy, has to live outside the firewall.

And as to the rest, you seem to be under the impression 
that there's somebody here who actually knows what he/she 
is doing with regard to email configuration. There is no 
"system administrator"; there's just me, maybe either or 
both of the other programmers, and the boss, trying to get 
this thing working. Database access utilities we know. 
eCRM we know. Java-client-to-ILE-mixed-language-server we 
know. Terminal emulation we know. If pressed, I can even 
make API calls, either OS/400 or JavaMail, to send email 
programmatically. But with this verstenken mess, we're out 
of our depth.

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JHHL