> Given the prior comments about wanting to not smart host / off-load to a > different local SMTP server, yes, I'm assuming direct-to-MX with my > comments / questions.
That's a bad idea for several reasons. > Sorry, that's somewhat nebulous. Are you asking about the z/OS SYSPROGs > or the company management that said SYSPROGs report to? I'm talking whoever has authority over both the z/OS system and the network infrastructure, including firewalls, mail servers, routers and connection to an ISP or backbone. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Grant Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sending email from the Mainframe On 7/23/20 2:27 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Are you assuming direct-to-MX? Given the prior comments about wanting to not smart host / off-load to a different local SMTP server, yes, I'm assuming direct-to-MX with my comments / questions. > Are you assuming using a mail server not under the control of the z/OS > system's management. Sorry, that's somewhat nebulous. Are you asking about the z/OS SYSPROGs or the company management that said SYSPROGs report to? > If not, then I've already addressed the issue. I agree that having z/OS smart-host to a different SMTP server that does the to-MX sending would address my comments / questions. I assume that said smart-host is under the same company management hierarchy (or subcontracted there from), even if it's not actually the z/OS SYSPROGs. I believe that enforcing TLS with CSSMTP being used as direct-to-MX is going to be problematic. At least for a general outbound email. Business-to-business might be considerably less problematic. -- Grant. . . . unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
