In our shop we have a started task called SMTP which is associated to a JES output class. That started task's cataloged procedure calls PGM=MVPMAIN with a CONFIG DD reading a certain statement for NJEDOMAIN. I think this is the SMTP setup "not CSSMTP". You might check this in your environment. I am pretty sure, your NJEDOMAIN reads ZOS. The interesting point is *not* to set up an NJE node or even network (I think you can do but that's another story). Here, the NJE domain name is used in the default set of rewrite rules for the RFC822 header fields. For us this is a good (or "correct") setup when for example we IEBGENER our memos to the JES output class associated with SMTP. We just write "HELO ZOS" and our SMTP started task will forward the correct way to our Lotus Domino service including query of MX records and all that stuff.
Cheers Michael Von: Frank Swarbrick <0000002782105f5c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Datum: 2014-09-02 20:56 Betreff: z/OS SMTP server Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> I am writing a simple CICS application to use the EXEC CICS SPOOLxxxx commands to write data to JES to be used by z/OS SMTP (not CSSMTP which we do not have running). My question is simple, but perhaps the answer is not. The question is, what is the best way to get the correct "domain name" to be used in the SMTP HELO command? We have quite a few batch processes that use the z/OS SMTP server to send email. All of them appear to just have coded "HELO ZOS". While this works, it also is not technically "correct" because "ZOS" is not in fact the "domain name". Rather, in our DEV LPAR it should be "zosd.fb" and in production "prd1.fb". So we have a lot of the following the the SMTP LOGFILE DD: EZA5460I 09/02/14 09:01:24 BSMTP Helo Domain: ZOS I've never heard of you! rather than the more desirable: EZA5460I 09/02/14 12:23:11 BSMTP Helo Domain: zosd.fb Yours too, I see! SMTP doesn't seem to really care. Other than the message above it still works no matter if you supply the "correct" domain or not. I looked at the source code for the SMTPNOTE CLIST and see that even there the value is hardcoded. Do we just need to make this somehow configurable and make sure we configure it with the name of the LPAR the CICS is running in? Seems a bit of overkill. Honestly, the whole requirement for a user application to actually specify SMTP commands seems to me to be more than a little crazy. And in any case, the requirement for specifying "who I am" on the HELO is even odder. Especially since (for example) the Microsoft Exchange SMTP server doesn't even require it: 220 ES05.firstbank.fb.ent2 Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:39:56 -0600 HELO 250 ES05.firstbank.fb.ent2 Hello [10.100.5.50] whereas the z/OS SMTP server does require it. When not present the email is not sent and the SMTP log shows: EZA5465E 09/02/14 12:48:53 Deleting Spool File from undetermined origin job number (JOB04887) Perhaps in the end I'll just use "HELO ZOS" just like every other email job we have. But I like to have things as "correct" as possible (when possible and not a huge amount of extra work). Thanks, Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ Basler Sachversicherungs-AG Amtsgericht Bad Homburg v.d.H., HRB 9357 | USt-ID-Nr. DE 276021973 Basler Straße 4, 61345 Bad Homburg v.d.H. Vorstand: Jan De Meulder - Vorsitzender, Markus Jost, Dr. Jürg Schiltknecht, Dr. Alexander Tourneau, Dr. Christoph Wetzel Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dr. Martin Strobel Basler Lebensversicherungs-AG | Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 4659 | Ust-ID-Nr. DE 276021973 Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 22, 20459 Hamburg Vorstand: Jan De Meulder - Vorsitzender, Markus Jost, Dr. Jürg Schiltknecht, Dr. Alexander Tourneau, Dr. Christoph Wetzel Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dr. Martin Strobel Basler Versicherung AG Direktion für Deutschland | Amtsgericht Bad Homburg v.d.H., HRB 1228 | USt-ID-Nr. DE 281452875 Basler Straße 4, 61345 Bad Homburg v.d.H. Hauptbevollmächtigter für Deutschland: Jan De Meulder Basler Leben AG Direktion für Deutschland | Amtsgericht Bad Homburg v.d.H., HRB 1229 | Ust-ID-Nr. DE 281452875 Basler Straße 4, 61345 Bad Homburg v.d.H. Hauptbevollmächtigter für Deutschland: Jan De Meulder ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
