Re: Enabling SMTP in VAX/VMS

contracer11@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Could you show me a practical example ?
I´m completely lost with alternate gateway, general gateway,
substitute domain, zone...

The gateways are where the network traffic goes next, when it doesn't have a path to the particular target host. Domains and zones are part of the configuration of host names and routing.

There are multiple manuals on the topic of this particular software product, ranging from the initial configuration on up through specific functions and purposes:

<http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/>

I also have to infer that you're not at all familiar with core IP and SMTP networking concepts and with the associated terminology (and we were most certainly all in that knowledge state once), something which would then lead me to suggest any of the various available books on the topic. (Having just looked at it, and unfortunately, I'd skip the introductory manual in the TCP/IP Services documentation.) Rather, I'd look for IP networking coursework on the net, or a book at your local technical bookshop, and at the following documentation:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol>
<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/6526/6526pro_042.html#smtp_chap>

There are a variety of TCP/IP courses available from HP, as well as from other various other training vendors. (Whether books or courses are better for you depends on how you best learn.)

Alternatively, I'd encourage you to get some more formal assistance here, as it's comparatively easy to get yourself into deep (and sometimes quite weird) trouble with IP configurations. (Been there, and made various of the mistakes myself, etc. I've certainly not all the mistakes, however, but I expect to add to my tally. But if I was in your situation and if this situation is a crunch situation for your employer, I'd tend to ask for more formal help.)

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