topic Re: hp sendmail help in Operating System - HP-UX

hp sendmail help

Steven Chen_1 — Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:32:10 GMT

Hi,

I would like to have hpux10.20 sendmail 8.7 to send mails to our existing SGI sendmail 8.8 box or NT4 Exchange Server that relay mails to users. I have made it receiving mails, but not able to send mails out. We do not have DNS server, but use ISP's. All servers are behind firewall.

Is it something related to DNS, such as the resolv.conf file? Please help giving me some guide as what I have to do.

Very appreciated.

Steven

Re: hp sendmail help

Dave Kelly_1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:31:36 GMT

If you run

sendmail -v user@domain.com

you will be able to see if a successful connection is being made.

If not, please can you describe what sort of errors are being reported.

You can also check /var/adm/syslog/mail.log to see if any errors are being logged.

Finally, you can run the command:

mailq

to show you a list of the messages currently in the message queue and also an indication as to why they have not been sent.

Re: hp sendmail help

Steven Chen_1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:43:30 GMT

Thanks for the help.

By using "sendmail -v xxx@domain.com", I got the following error:
"Warning: alias database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date".

Can you tell me who to update aliases.db please?

Very appreciated.

Re: hp sendmail help

Steven Chen_1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:19:23 GMT

update of my sendmail status:

after "newaliases" command issued, I see no error message sending mail out, but I still could not receive this mail from other server.

The other server is our regular unix mail server.

Re: hp sendmail help

Dave Kelly_1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:24:09 GMT

If you run the sendmail -v command on the other server to this one, what kind of problems do you see ?

Re: hp sendmail help

Andreas Garbe — Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:55:00 GMT

Hi Steven,

you can config the sendmail.cf.

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
#--- IP-Adresse mail-hosts
DS[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] # your mailhost

i hope that's all for your HP

Best regards