topic Re: sendmail / mailx difference in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail / mailx difference

hpuxsa — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:06:49 GMT

I am trying to send mails to our faxmail server. The mails goes through if i use mailx but if i use sendmail it doesn't. The faxmail server accept mails only in some particular format.

The only difference i could see that the mails being sent via mailx had the following in the body in addition to what we input as body.

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii"

We are running sendmail 8.9.3.1 (PHNE_25184). OS is 11.11

Could someone tell me how i can make the format for sendmail mails the same as mailx.

Thanks,
steven

Re: sendmail / mailx difference

Indira Aramandla — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:49:35 GMT

Hi,

mailx is an interactive message processing system and sendmail sends mail over the internet.

sendmail determines the networks to use based on the syntax and contents of the addresses,according to information in the sendmail configuration file. This file wil, be located at /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

Check this configuration file for the line under # "Smart" relay host (may be null)

Indira A

Re: sendmail / mailx difference

hpuxsa — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:58:34 GMT

The mail which i sent using sendmail is reaching the faxmail server and it is being rejected there because of the format.

Re: sendmail / mailx difference

Geoff Wild — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:06:48 GMT

From man sendmail:

EightBitMode=mode
Set the handling of 8-bit input to 7-bit
destinations. Mode can be set to the following
values:

m Convert to 7-bit MIME format.
p Pass it as eight bits.
s Bounce the mail.

You can add that to the command line:

-o EightBitMode=7

give that a try...

In sendmail.cf it defaults to:
O EightBitMode=pass8

But I would use it on the command line only.

Rgds...Geoff

Rgds...Geoff