Configuring the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server

When you configured TCP/IP, the system automatically configured SMTP for you. However, you still need to change a few SMTP properties to ensure that the SMTP server works correctly for e-mail.

To change the SMTP properties, perform the following steps:
  1. In IBM® Navigator for i, expand Network > Servers > TCP/IP Servers.
  2. Right-click SMTP and click Properties.
  3. Click the tabs listed in the following table to set the field values indicated in the Then perform the following action column.
    Click this tab Then perform the following action
    General Select Start when TCP/IP is started.1
    General Select No maximum for the Message split size field.
    General If you have a mail router, enter the name of the mail router, for example, mailrouter.company.com. The mail router name is the system name, where SMTP routes the mail if the e-mail is not local mail. See the IBM Navigator for i help for more details.
    General If you have a firewall set up, select Forward outgoing mail to router through firewall.
    General If you exchange e-mail with Domino® servers, clear the Interpret percent sign as routing character check box.
    General If you want to forward all nonlocal e-mail to another SMTP server, specify the fully qualified mail exchanger domain name in the Forwarding mailhub domain field.
    General If you want the SMTP server to support bare line feed (LF) or carriage return-line feed (CRLF), select Allow bare line feed. If you want the SMTP server to support CRLF only, clear the Allow bare line feed check box.
    Automatic Registration If you are using the SNDDST command to send e-mail and the RCVDST command to receive e-mail, and you are using SNADS addressing instead of internet addressing, select the Automatically add remote users to system distribution directory check box.
    Automatic Registration If you are using the SNDDST command to send e-mail and the RCVDST command to receive e-mail, click System alias table in the Add users to field.
    1 This change takes effect the next time the SMTP server is started.
  4. Click OK to accept the changes.