topic Unable to send mail in Operating System - OpenVMS

Unable to send mail

FOX MULDER_2 — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:43:22 GMT

Hi,

Good morning.

We have a problem sending mails from our VMS servers to outside domain in the Internet.
The mails bounce back with the below infomration .

%UCX-E-SMTP_UNREACHABL, Can't connect to remote host, in.yahoo.com
-SYSTEM-F-UNREACHABLE, remote node is not currently reachable

I presume that I need to add a mail relay server here . is that right? Can you please help me with this .
We do have mail relay servers in the network , but not sure how to add them in VMS.

I use HP TCP IP suit.

your replies will be highly apprecaited.

Thanks

Re: Unable to send mail

Ian Miller. — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:03:16 GMT

Read the fine manual on setting up an alternate gateway.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/6526/6526pro_042.html#smtp_zone_sec

works for me, YMMV

Re: Unable to send mail

Andy Bustamante — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:31:27 GMT

You should also verify DNS is configured properly:

$ @sys$manager:tcpip$define_commands
$ nslookup
> set type=mx
yahoo.com

and that the VMS system has access to send mail.

$ telnet a.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25

Andy

Re: Unable to send mail

Peter Zeiszler — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:56:22 GMT

tcpip set config smtp /gateway=alternate=host

See if that is what you are after.

Type tcpip
Then at the TCPIP> prompt
Help set config

Re: Unable to send mail

Drew Shelton — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:13:47 GMT

What syntax are you using for the outside email address?

Re: Unable to send mail

Joseph Huber_1 — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:10:14 GMT

And, since the error message was %UCX-E-SMTP,
the commands above are UCX rather than TCPIP.