topic Re: mail in Operating System - HP-UX

mail

subhashni — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:10:15 GMT

Hello ,
Is there a way that i can verify that if a mail
notification sent to a user.
Thanks in advance.

Re: mail

Deoncia Grayson_1 — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:25:41 GMT

you can always check
for /var/adm/syslog/mail.log and grep for the user id to make sure no errors was generated and verify with the user that he/she indeed received the notification.

this of course applies if you're using sendmail to send the notification.

Re: mail

LiPEnS — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:25:42 GMT

Hi
See into /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Regards

Re: mail

Rick Garland — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:27:36 GMT

In the /var/adm/syslog is a file called maillog. This log file will tell you that a message was sent from the UNIX system. This does not tell you that a message was received, was opened, was read, etc...

If you are relaying (say, to an Exchange server) this mail will be relayed to the Exchange server. On the Exchange server will be logs that will state mail for userX was received and relayed to the mailbox.

The sendmail service on HPUX does not have the functionality to see if a user opens his mail.

Re: mail

Raj D. — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:34:27 GMT

Hi Subhashni,

Check the log file /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

( usually grows more).

# cat /var/adm/syslog/mail.log | grep username | tail -n 1

It will show the last mail sent to the user.

hth,
Raj.

Re: mail

subhashni — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:41:28 GMT

Thank You.