I should have qualified my statements acknowledging that sendmail can often be
used as an open relay. In this case, we're sending email only outbound, and
the IPSEC firewall pretty much precludes anyone from off platform connecting to
the SMTP mail daemon on z/OS USS.
You assert that CSSMTP
What is EXIM, chopped liver?
I had a few gigs at organizations that used the SPOOL to mail facility, one of
which migrated to CSSMTP.
IBM is like Quantum Mechanics; you may be able to make accurate predictions but
don't try to make sense out of the internal workings - you'll just get
Allan Staller wrote:
>I am not aware of any shops that use SMTP "to the mainframe".
>i.e. the mainframe is not usually the target for inbound
>communications. This would require a "email server" to be running
>on the mainframe (HRC anyone?)
Even if "mainframe" means z/OS specifically in this
Allan stated:
> I am not aware of any shops that use SMTP "to the mainframe".
I have seen some implementations of SMTP receive on a mainframe.
In one case, the receiver would take the message as jcl and submit it to
run as a batch program. This was mainly to allow programmers to send
compile
CSSMTP was designed to mitigate several concerns with the SMTP client.
As far as I can recall, there were some configuration options, that if not
addressed, allowed the SMTP client to be a mail relay (among several others).
CSSMTP was designed to eliminate those exposures.
I am not aware of any
On 2019-03-21, at 10:03:08, Baxter, Bruce (ITS) wrote:
> 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
