eMail via Wollongong PATHWAY to domain

[Russ Carraro]

Customer has a legacy VAX, OpenVMS 7.1, running Wollongong's PATHWAY TCP/IP product. Sending email to another OpenVMS system, e.g. nodename::username, works fine but sending to Outlook, e.g. wins%"russell.carraro@hp.com", fails. The message I see in the log file is "MX query: Name server failure". Anyone have PATHWAY experience that could help me resolve this problem?

I believe this used to work. The customer has, also, been converting to VLANs - could that be the problem?

Yes, the product hasn't been support in probably 10 years and they are looking at replacing it with UCX.

[Steven Schweda]

"MX query: Name server failure" sure sounds
like bad name server configuration and/or bad
routing (so it can't talk to the name
server(s)).

I still have some PathWay CD-ROMs in my
archives, which, I presume, include
documentation, so if you could use anything
related to version 3.0 (1997) or 3.5 (1998),
I probably have the source material. (Send
e-mail to sms@antinode-org, more or less.)
As I recall, this stuff wasn't changing very
fast at the end, so the version-dependence
of almost everything was pretty weak.

If the IP addresses have been changed (which
sounds likely), you'll probably want to go
through the configuration files (somewhere)
in or under TWG$TCP:[NETDIST],
(STARTINET.COM?) and/or (re-)run
TWG$TCP:[NETDIST.MISC]NETCONFIGURE.COM.

Somewhere in that neighborhood, there should
be a *VERSION*.EXE which (when run) will tell
you the product version(s). (If not, then
it's _really_ old.) Of course, if you were
really up-to-date, you'd probably be using
the newer mailer, Pony Express ("pony%",
instead of "wins%"), but I never made the
switch myself.

I still have the stuff installed (some
version or other) on a VAXstation 2000, but
with 6MB of memory (and RD54 disks), it takes
about a half-hour to start that thing up, so
it's not the handiest info source.

[Russ Carraro]

Had to define SMTP_DEFAULT_RELAY logical.