Larry Burch wrote:
Can the SMTP task be cycled manually, with "P SMTP" and "S SMTP" commands
from the console (i.e., without cycling the TCPIP task)?
I want to be sure to get the TIMEZONE updated next month when Daylight
Saving Time starts in the USA. I presume cycling SMTP is necessary and
appropriate, but can't find any specific info.
We're at OS390.210; we don't have a Test system.
For our website on our mainframe, I have a small
CGI that responds to requests to send emails from
the mainframe; it submits a job that has as its first line:
/*$VS, 'S SMTP'
the job has only a single, IEFBR14 job; but the above
command is issued and it starts up SMTP.
The CGI then issues a sleep request to give SMTP time to initialize
Then it submits a job that uses IEBGENER to pass a mail file to
the SMTP reader
Then it sleeps again
Then it submits a job that has this as its first line:
/*$VS, 'P SMTP'
this stops SMTP.
In this way, we can have a low level of email activity
but don't hang around long enough to get used as a relay
in the SMTP networks.
Hope this helps. Or is at least interesting.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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