I believe that z/OS sill supports sendmail. I've never configured it. CSSMTP is a significant improvement over the now unsupported SMTP. We have never needed z/OS to be a full mail agent, and I think z/OS and zHardware is probably overkill for that particular application.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: XMITIP and ANTI SPOOF message > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:07:28 -0600, Stuart Holland wrote: > > >This discussion started out talking about XMITIP, which means running on > >z/OS and using CSSMTP (or the older SMTP server). There is no user > >authentication with the server. If you know how to create the headers > >and how to get output to CSSMTP, you can create a sequential file and > >use IEBGENER to write it to spool. You can put any mail-from ID you want > >in it. One of our systems programmers sent a note to all of I.T. showing > >people how to do this. Fortunately, this was very early and no one was > >wanting to do it yet, so it was mostly ignored. > > > CSSMTP seems to be a huge step backwards from the widely used > "sendmail" that z/OS previously supported. > > And write-only?! > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
