VMS 5.5 and multinet 4.1 SMTP Question

Multinet is an excellent TCP/IP stack but the SMTP server included with it is a bit limited and V4.1 is old. If you allow it to accept SMTP mail directly exploitation as a spam relay which would cause lots of problems for others as well as yourself. Having said that, it should be possible to feed mail to it from a more capable internet facing SMTP mail server or set it up to send/receive SMTP mail on your internal network only. To do this, you don't need the DECnet to SMTP mail gateway you mentioned. If this was configured on your machine, it may have been used to allow the machine running Multinet SMTP to accept mail from the internet and pass it on to other DECnet connected machines which did not run SMTP. I don't know what MULTINET:MR_CONFIGURE.COM is but "MR" suggests it might be something to do with ALL-IN-1 mail rather than VMS MAIL. If you want to run ALL-IN-1 mail, this is very different to using VMS MAIL. Everything you need to route SMTP mail to/from VMS MAIL on your machine should be provided by: $ MULTINET CONFIGURE /MAIL Regards, Peter Coghlan.