On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:43:11 -0700, Ulrich Krueger <[email protected]> wrote:
>... >What is your setting of RESOLVERUSAGE? >I believe the value of this parameter needs to be changed if you want to use > >"IPMAILERNAME xxx.com ALL|UNKNOWN" vs IPMAILERADDRESS >... Yes. If you are going to use IPMAILERNAME you must specify RESOLVERUSAGE YES. Otherwise the SNMP daemon will not try to resolve the name. But you may not want to do this. In my previous shop (as set up by me) and my current shop (as set up by others) we used IPMAILERADDRESS and (once the parm became available) RESOLVERUSAGE NO because of problems introduced by RESOLVERUSAGE YES. We are reeducating ourselves on the topic because we could not remember what those problems were. As I read it you may have trouble even if the name is resolved. If you enable the SMTP daemon's name resolution it will not only resolve names, it will also attempt to get "mail exchange" (MX) records from the name server and try to send emails to mail transfer agent (MTA) closest to the recipient rather than sending the emails to the mailer you defined. If either end has firewalls or access lists in place they very likely will prevent your use of those remote MTAs. There does not seem to be any way to tell the z/OS SMTP daemon to resolve the mail of your defined "mailer" and use it for all outbound mail. IBM is providing a new SMTP daemon (with z/OS 1.11?). Hopefully they will have addressed this problem by then. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
