This section describes how you can setup standard IBM OS400 SMTP. If possible you should consider to use InterForm400 SMTP instead.
Notice that there are several limitations with IBM SMTP compared to InterForm400 SMTP. One of the limitations is, that sent emails are deleted from the /APF3812Mail/Outbox directory, which means that these emails cannot be opened from the email log.
The created E-mails can be sent out from the System i either directly from the System i or through a mail server. These are the commands, that you should use:
1) CFGTCP - Option 10. Work with TCP/IP host table entries
- Insert IP-address and Hostname of the mail server - if used.
2) CHGTCPDMN
- Insert the IP-adresses of Domain Name Servers at INTNETADR
3) Add possible unknown routes to the mail server
CFGTCP - Option 2. Work with TCP/IP routes
4) CHGSMTPA, press F4 to prompt
- Insert *YES to AUTOSTART SMTP server after IPL.
- Insert "HOSTNAME" of mail server at "MAILROUTER" - if used. If you want to mail directly from the System i you should specify *NONE for the MAILROUTER.
- Insert *YES as "FIREWALL" if the System i is not able to send directly through a firewall. The firewall parameter is ignored if you use *NONE for the MAILROUTER.
5) CHGPOPA
*NO at AUTOSTART, MSGSPLIT = *NOMAX or limit of mail server.
6) STRMSF
- Starts the Mail Server Framework.
7) STRTCPSVR *SMTP
- Starts the SMTP server on the System i
The commands STRMSF and STRTCPSVR should be called from the IPL Startup program of the System i.
More information can be found in the IBM documentation.
Combining OS400 SMTP and Domino/400 on the same machine
If you are already running Domino on the same iSeries as the one where you have InterForm400 installed there will be a problem sending via SMTP unless you e.g. bind the OS400 SMTP to another IP-address than used for Domino.
