On Tuesday, 03/24/2009 at 09:06 EDT, Ed Zell <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are using the IPMAILERADDRESS in the SMTP CONFIG file to route all email > from VM through our standard email server on the network. The trick is to > make sure > that SMTP cannot resolve any addresses so that is uses the IPMAILERADDRESS. > > There may be an easier/better way, but we put a special version of TCPIP DATA > on > the SMTP machine. It has the NSINTERADDR commented out so that SMTP cannot > use DNS to resolve any addresses. This forces the use of IPMAILERADDRESS. As I indicated in my previous post, just use "IPMAILERADDRESS ALL". It eliminates the need to use a baseball bat to persuade the SMTP server to forward mail. Everything that isn't destined for a local VM user will be sent to the designated mail relay with no attempt to resolve any destinations in the mail. Note that IPMAILERADDRESS now allows hostnames as well as IP addresses. But be aware that SMTP will not round-robin through the IP addresses associated with a hostname. If you want/need that, code a list of IP addresses or hostnames. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
