Hi VMS experts:

I'm looking for a way to enable SMTP protocol in my Vax system.
I need enable this protocol to send e-mail only (not receive).
Can you help me ?
Looking in sys$manager: area I found this files:
ucx$smtp_startup.com
ucx$smtp_shutdown.com

Thanks again.

contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to enable SMTP protocol in my Vax system.
> I need enable this protocol to send e-mail only (not receive).
> Can you help me ?
> Looking in sys$manager: area I found this files:
> ucx$smtp_startup.com
> ucx$smtp_shutdown.com

Looks like you have an old version of the TCPIP stack.

In newer versions, there is @SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG  so I assume
@SYS$MANABER:UCX$CONFIG might exist and in there, you can configure and
enable the SMTP service.

Enabling send only will be tricky and you may have to then manually
disable the receiving end without disturbing the queues and logicals
that enable you to use mail to send messages to that queue to be sent
off to the internet. Might be easier to just redefine the services to
listen to a different port.

(this would be the UCX utility, with SHOW SERVICE SMTP and SET SERVICE
SMTP )

In article <44D2CF81.934DEB8@teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:
>Enabling send only will be tricky and you may have to then manually
>disable the receiving end without disturbing the queues and logicals
>that enable you to use mail to send messages to that queue to be sent
>off to the internet. Might be easier to just redefine the services to
>listen to a different port.

....or to restrict the SMTP server to accept only localhost 

>(this would be the UCX utility, with SHOW SERVICE SMTP and SET SERVICE
>SMTP )

$ UCX SET SERVICE SMTP/ACCEPT=HOSTS=LOCALHOST

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contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi VMS experts:
> 
> I'm looking for a way to enable SMTP protocol in my Vax system.
> I need enable this protocol to send e-mail only (not receive).
> Can you help me ?
> Looking in sys$manager: area I found this files:
> ucx$smtp_startup.com
> ucx$smtp_shutdown.com
> 
> Thanks again.
> 

Do you have to have disable incoming, or are you just not
interested in having it work.
You may not be able to receive errors/bounces if you don't
allow incoming emails.

contracer11@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to enable SMTP protocol in my Vax system.

   VAX is hardware.  Not software.

   Various VAX systems can boot and run ULTRIX VAX, OpenVMS VAX and 
various other operating systems.  (And VAX/VMS tends to imply software 
versions prior to V5.5 or so.)

   These distinctions may seem and may reasonably be interpreted as 
pedantic, but it's not intended to be.  With the name of the software 
involved (and materials such as the versions), we can better target our 
answers to your questions, and we can (try to) avoid cases where we 
might not understand and/or answer the question you had intended.

> I need enable this protocol to send e-mail only (not receive).

   If you only need client, then configure your chosen client for 
communications with an SMTP server elsewhere.  How you configure the 
client depends on which client, obviously.

   On OpenVMS, the default MAIL client assumes a local SMTP server, but 
there are clients available that can and do use remote servers.

   The mail client in Mozilla, for instance, can be configured and can 
connect and use a remote SMTP server to send mail, and can use POP or 
IMAP to receive and process mail.

> Can you help me ?
> Looking in sys$manager: area I found this files:
> ucx$smtp_startup.com
> ucx$smtp_shutdown.com

   The central configuration tool for TCP/IP Services product (in the 
product version range that you are apparently running) is:

   @SYS$MANAGER:UCX$CONFIG

   The constituent procedures for the various clients and servers are 
not generally intended for direct access.

   The TCP/IP Services product manuals -- including the configuration 
and management materials for the current releases -- are available for 
viewing at <http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/>.  Your TCP/IP Services 
version is clearly prior to V5.0, which makes it comparatively old. 
These manuals can be invaluable sources of information, particularly for 
questions such as this one.  (Versions prior to V5.0 used the prefix UCX 
for commands and tools and files, and versions V5.0 and later use the 
prefix TCPIP.)

   And I'm assuming that there are reasons why this OpenVMS VAX system 
has not been upgraded to more current OpenVMS and more current TCP/IP 
Services product versions, as well.

Hoff Hoffman wrote:
> contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a way to enable SMTP protocol in my Vax system.
>
>    VAX is hardware.  Not software.
>
>    Various VAX systems can boot and run ULTRIX VAX, OpenVMS VAX and
> various other operating systems.  (And VAX/VMS tends to imply software
> versions prior to V5.5 or so.)
>
>    These distinctions may seem and may reasonably be interpreted as
> pedantic, but it's not intended to be.  With the name of the software
> involved (and materials such as the versions), we can better target our
> answers to your questions, and we can (try to) avoid cases where we
> might not understand and/or answer the question you had intended.
>
> > I need enable this protocol to send e-mail only (not receive).
>
>    If you only need client, then configure your chosen client for
> communications with an SMTP server elsewhere.  How you configure the
> client depends on which client, obviously.
>
>    On OpenVMS, the default MAIL client assumes a local SMTP server, but
> there are clients available that can and do use remote servers.
>
>    The mail client in Mozilla, for instance, can be configured and can
> connect and use a remote SMTP server to send mail, and can use POP or
> IMAP to receive and process mail.
>
> > Can you help me ?
> > Looking in sys$manager: area I found this files:
> > ucx$smtp_startup.com
> > ucx$smtp_shutdown.com
>
>    The central configuration tool for TCP/IP Services product (in the
> product version range that you are apparently running) is:
>
>    @SYS$MANAGER:UCX$CONFIG
>
>    The constituent procedures for the various clients and servers are
> not generally intended for direct access.
>
>    The TCP/IP Services product manuals -- including the configuration
> and management materials for the current releases -- are available for
> viewing at <http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/>.  Your TCP/IP Services
> version is clearly prior to V5.0, which makes it comparatively old.
> These manuals can be invaluable sources of information, particularly for
> questions such as this one.  (Versions prior to V5.0 used the prefix UCX
> for commands and tools and files, and versions V5.0 and later use the
> prefix TCPIP.)
>
>    And I'm assuming that there are reasons why this OpenVMS VAX system
> has not been upgraded to more current OpenVMS and more current TCP/IP
> Services product versions, as well.

I enable smtp protocol  in my system, but =CD=B4m  receiving  errors whrn
trying
send an email:

vax001> ucx sh service

Service             Port  Proto    Process          Address
State

BOOTP                 67  UDP      UCX$BOOTP        0.0.0.0
Enabled
FTP                   21  TCP      UCX$FTPD         0.0.0.0
Enabled
SMTP                  25  TCP      UCX$SMTP         0.0.0.0
Enabled
TELNET                23  TCP      not defined      0.0.0.0
Enabled
TFTP                  69  UDP      UCX$TFTP         0.0.0.0
Enabled


vax001>  mail/subj=3D"I love VMS" nl: "smtp%contracer11@gmail.com"
%MAIL-E-USERSPEC, invalid user specification '@GMAIL.COM'

What can I do to enable send emails from vax to internet ?

Can you show me a manual to config smtp ?

Thanks again.