Did you try following Binyamin's pointer and insert a comma between "SMTP" and
"EMAILHOST="?
ie. //SENDMAIL EXEC SASMSTR,
// OPTIONS='EMAILSYS=SMTP,EMAILHOST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
Without the comma, the EMAILHOST operand will be a comment. Without it,
it's possible that SASMSTR will default to the local host. If there's no SMTP
server (port 25) active on the local host, SAS is probably trying to format a
message but passing "LOCALHOST" instead of "127.0.0.1" to the address
conversion routine.
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:21:52 -0600
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: - SMTP :- ERROR: inet_addr failed, cannot convert address
> 'LOCALHOST'
> To: [email protected]
>
> Before I talk to SAS thought to cross post here..
>
> I am exploiting mailing service using SAS however on particular lpar only
> it seems to be not working ..below is my JCL.
>
> //SENDMAIL EXEC SASMSTR,
> // OPTIONS='EMAILSYS=SMTP EMAILHOST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
> //SYSIN DD *
> Filename emp email
> From='[email protected]'
> To='[email protected]'
> Subject='TEST'
> Attach ='xxxxx.TEMPFTP.TEXT';
> Data _Null_ ;
> File emp;
> put ;
> run;
>
> I have checked the SMTP Mailer address in SMTP Config
> EZA5348I IP Mailer Address : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ==same as used
> in job.
>
> I get below error :-
>
> ERROR: Unable to connect to SMTP server.
> ERROR: Unable to connect to SMTP server.
> ERROR: Unable to connect to SMTP server.
> ERROR: inet_addr failed, cannot convert address 'LOCALHOST'.
> ERROR: inet_addr failed, cannot convert address 'LOCALHOST'.
> ERROR: inet_addr failed, cannot convert address 'LOCALHOST'.
>
>
> Now not able to crack it down to find why it's not able to resolve the SMTP
> mailing server address...
>
> One of the diagnostic step I took was to start the packet trace on address
> = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and port 25(smtp) however seems my job when ran could not
> even hit this hence nothing was captured in the Packet tracing...
>
> Does anyone has any kind of thought or ideas to crack it down ...Thanks
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