Adam, I've just been through the same process
that you have below. I traced the SMTP port and
found that our mail server was also rejecting the
sender's address for being invalid. There is
limited lenacy with the configuration of our mail
server, however it would be much better from a
broker and event source identification point of
view if the sender's address could be modified.
Furthermore I don't really want to relax the
mailserver acceptance rules in fear of internet
spam mail hitting the server.
Were you able to determine whether the
SMTP "from" name is configurable ??
Please contact me either through forum or
at "scott.nic...@dcu.ie"
Cheers
Scott
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Subject: Re: NDPS cannot mail through NIMS
From: Alan Adams
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:41:34 UTC
Newsgroups: novell.support.collaboration.internet-
messaging-system,
novell.support.os.server.printing.ndps-neps
Actually I just took a LAN trace of what the
new NTFYSMTP.ENM actually does, and it only puts
the "NDPS Notification Service" in quotes when
submitting the SMTP email message. In other
words it used to be:
From: NDPS Notification Service
And with the updated module it's now:
From: "NDPS Notification Service"
So if the mail server end of the conversation
requires a valid SMTP address it's still going to
fail. I don't see a workaround unless the check
can be relaxed on the SMTP mail end. I don't
know what your own testing actually showed, but I
presume a call to Novell over either NDPS and/or
NIMS to get this notification working would be in
order.
It would appear part of the issue is that for
some SMTP environments, this email address is
actually going to have to be 100% valid. Not
just "with an @ symbol and domain" (which is
currently also missing from "NDPS Notification
Service"), but an actual SMTP address which
translates to a real domain with a real mail
handler. I know my own ISP currently rejects
mail if I don't specify the address I have with
their domain; certainly somewhere there is an
NDPS customer encountering the same thing. We
will need some way of specifying the address NDPS
should use for sending email when configuring the
NTFYSMTP module.
Alan Adams, MCNE
