Re: V5R4 SMTP Authentication

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, Help Systems said the i SMTP server was _required_ for ESEND to work.

And IBM is the one who said I needed the certificate.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Bradley V. Stone<bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Jeff,
>
>   First, you shouldn't need to create a self-signed Certificate for google
>   apps email.  It does use SSL, but since you are the client all you need to
>   do is import the CA from the cert they use into your certificate store (if
>   it's not there by default).
>
>   Second, iNav sounds like it has options not on the green screen then.
>   Interesting!  The only issue is you're still using the IBM SMTP server
>   which is a crapshoot.  :)
>
>   Bradley V. Stone
>   BVSTools, Inc.
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>   Jeff Crosby wrote:
>
>  It is new for V6R1.
>
>  We recently (just over a week) switched from using the i as our mail
>  server to Google Apps Premier.  I had to open a PMR to get everything
>  working correctly, but it has been wonderful since then.
>
>  I had to:
>
>  CHGSMTPA MAILROUTER("smtp.gmail.com") FIREWALL(*YES) ALWAUTH(*NONE)
>  FWDHUBSVR("smtp.gmail.com")
>
>  Set up a self-signed security certificate.
>
>  ADDSMTPLE TYPE(ACCEPT) INTNETADR('192.168.0.0') SUBNETMASK('255.255.0.0')
>
>  We use ESEND from Help Systems as well as the Advanced Job Scheduler
>  ("AJS").  AJS emails stuff under user profile "jsuser", so I set up
>  jsuser as a user in Google Apps.  In iNav I was able to tell it to
>  authenticate as [3]jsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Had to pay for an additional
>  user in Google Apps, but what I did was to let my
>  Windows/networking/support consultant use it as well.  He can then do
>  support work while I'm on vacation.  (Serendipitously, his initials
>  are "js".)
>
>
>  On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jim Bostwick[4]<jim.bostwick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>   We have just changed email service providers, so all outbound email must
>   provide a userid and pwd for the senders email account.  I have not seen
>   that i5/OS supports this natively at V5R4******Any help would be greatly
>   appreciated.
>
>
>
>   Jim Bostwick
>
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