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What is the sendmail to CSSMTP bridge?

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What is the sendmail to CSSMTP bridge?

Answer

z/OS V2R3 Communications Server has removed support for z/OS UNIX sendmail. The z/OS sendmail to CSSMTP bridge (sendmail bridge) is provided to emulate sendmail so that z/OS UNIX users can still use the sendmail command to send mail messages. The sendmail bridge parses input options from the command line, reads the mail message from the UNIX System Services file, and processes the mail message. The input mail message is updated by adding SMTP commands and SMTP headers if there is no header specified in the input mail message. The updated mail message is transmitted to the JES spool data set for the Communications Server SMTP (CSSMTP) application to process.

The z/OS sendmail to CSSMTP bridge is also available in V2R1 and V2R2 via new function APAR PI71175.

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Product Synonym

ZOSCS COMMSERVER

Document Information

Modified date:
30 October 2017

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dwa1409916

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