This FAQ is designed to answer common questions about sending e-mail from MVS.
What are my options for sending e-mail from MVS?
What is SMTP? What is its purpose?
What is RFC822?
What is MIME and why is it important?
What does a SMTP data stream consist of?
How can I send attachments?
How can I prevent users from pretending to be someone else when they send mail?
How does SMTP-Send insulate me from the various Internet Protocols?
Where can I get more information about the IBM SMTP Server?
Do I have to use the IBM SMTP Server?
My SMTP server doesn't recognize the @ character in my e-mail addresses. How can I send mail?
How can I get my SMTP Server to relay all mail to another SMTP mail server?
How do I prevent spammers from hijacking my IBM SMTP Server?
How can I tell who's sending e-mails?
How can I tell who's sending e-mails?
Using IBM's SMTP Server to accept the mail, you can turn on Logging and view the LOGFILE to see the headers from the e-mail traffic.
Using SMTP-Send you can write records to SMF, CICS journals or a sequential dataset which contain details about each email such as which user sent it, to which users, with how many attachments, what was the subject, what is the size and more.