I'm going to cross post this to mvs-oe as well as here... The folks that support Comm Server in-house have approached me about replacing the SMTPD (which is apparently a USS / OE facility) with CSSMTP, and I've got some thoughts about the particulars of their implementation that don't sit well with me.
I'm a relatively passionate and ardent z mainframe bigot - it's a great platform to work on. As mainframe folks tend to be, I'm a student of many platforms. I was shocked when I went back and looked that I wrote an SMTP client in Cobol a full 25 years ago that is deeply imbedded in all my shop's batch jobs sending reports and notifications. SMTP Port 25 sendmail / postfix is a staple and defacto standard worldwide as far as I can tell... When we had issues with our Lotus Notes MTA being reliably available and I couldn't prevail on the owners of that to make it enterprise bulletproof, we had our z/OS Comm Server folks fire up the local USS SMTPD sendmail daemon. It's been announced that function will be deprecated in the future and will be replaced by CSSMTP. After reading through the doc, I can't help but think that IBM z/OS CS support has lost their marbles. They're removing support for clients that want to send email via a local sendmail daemon listening on port 25 (or 587). That doesn't make sense... So my questions are: * Is anyone else using a local sendmail daemon on their system? From MVS? From USS? * Has anyone seen the process that is documented by the Sendmail / CSSMTP bridge used ANYWHERE but on z/OS? (I've never seen any script that used the sendmail command to send mail on any linux or aix system I've been on - they'd all use the mail command) * Is anyone using JES spool to send email off the platform? Bruce Baxter Assistant Director of IT | Revenue and Employment Portfolio | Architecture Office of Information Technology Services Building 8, W.A. Harriman State Office Campus, Albany, NY 12227 7th floor, #137 (518) 292-7846 | bruce.bax...@its.ny.gov<mailto:bruce.bax...@its.ny.gov> www.its.ny.gov<http://www.its.ny.gov/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
