topic Re: sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail

Steve_3 — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:00:10 GMT

I configured one of my server to sendmail to the exchange server and it works great.

I configured the same configuration on another server and it receives it as an attachment. Why is this?

mailx -s "Subject" xxx@xxx.com < file

thx
steve

Re: sendmail

Dave Kelly_1 — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:10:53 GMT

Can you detail what you configured in your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file ?

Re: sendmail

CHRIS_ANORUO — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:12:16 GMT

Check for the version of sendmail that your are running. Vi the sendmail.cf file and search for the version number (DZ). Try and upgrade to 8.9.3.
Also try mailx -m username@hp.com < filename

Re: sendmail

Dave Kelly_1 — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:14:30 GMT

What version of sendmail are you using ?

Run the command

sendmail -d0.1
to find out.

You can trap the messages you are sending by editing your sendmail.cf file so that the DeliveryMode line becomes

O DeliveryMode=queue

Stop/restart sendmail and run your mailx command again.

This will stop messages from being processed immediately, you can then move them from /usr/spool/mqueue to another directory.
Each message is made up of 2 parts, a qf and df file. The qf file is the header, the df file is the body. Make sure you have both files.

If you do this on both the working and problem machine, you will be able to determine the differences between the 2 messages.

Re: sendmail

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:30:55 GMT

Steve:

To answer your question, if you look at the headers of the two messages you receive, the one that comes as an attachment will have a content type something like:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-roman8

the one that appears "normally" will have a content type of:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

when exchange gets a message with a charset of us-ascii it is able to display it normally... otherwise, it appears as an attachment!

to fix it, on the machine that generates attachments, issue the following command:

# echo "charset=us-ascii" >> /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc
for system-wide

or
# echo "charset=us-ascii" >> $HOME/.mailrc
for a single user

to a man on mailx and search for mailrc (and also charset) for more information

Good luck

Re: sendmail

Berlene Herren — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:52:12 GMT

Steve, I think Kotfi has the answer. Also, make sure your binary and your sendmail.cf match. Run

#sendmail -bs

You should see something like this:Sendmail 8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3; Mon, 20 Nov 200
0 12:52:05 -0500 (EST)

(control C to escape)

The 8.9.3 after the / is the version .cf file.

Berlene

Re: sendmail

Rita C Workman — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:13:29 GMT

Because the syntax you gave will create that result.
You can read the detail at the below url, but to sum it up I would be willing to bet you have PHNE_15835 loaded on the one box. This server gives you MIME capability.
We use it send reports as true attachments (as opposed to within the body of the message) and incorporated the syntax with our production jobstreams. You may want to review the details:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=05fc44ed089266ab79/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048789276

JUST AS AN FYI....to folks who do like this option. Make sure you don't by mistake download and configure PHNE_20505, because it will conflict with the MIME patch and you have to go back and remove it and reinstall the MIME (PHNE_15835) patch.

Regards

Re: sendmail

Steve_3 — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:21:13 GMT

Thanks.

-m did eliminated the problem.