topic sendmail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail problem

so_2 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:06:29 GMT

Hi All,

I have a problem using send mail.
I am trying to send mail from hpux server to an internet mail id (which was working till somedays back). There are no DS found in the sendmail.cf file. But if i send mail using mailx , i will get a error log in mail.log file as" lay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, relay=ausmtp05.au.xxx.com., stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with ausmtp05.au.xxx.com"

I checked the enitre sendmail.cf file where ausmtp05.au.xxx.com is given but not able to find. This server (ausmtp05.au.xxx.com ) is not in network now hope that may be the reason for not delivering the mail.

I have another relay server which is in network now and I edited the sendmail.cf file to put that server name as a DS entry, but again the mail not delivered.

Could anyone help me where exactly the the server name "ausmtp05.au.xxx.com " is specified in configuration?
why the mail is not getting delivers even after I put the DS server name ?

The server is able to route mail in local network.

Please help.
Thanks
s.o

Re: sendmail problem

Yang Qin_1 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:22:16 GMT

Hi, do you restart your sendmail daemon after you modified sendmail.cf?

For relay, did you check in /etc/mail that there is a file called /etc/mail/access or
/etc/mail/relay-domains ?

Yang

Re: sendmail problem

Steven Schweda — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:24:10 GMT

To which e-mail address ("internet mail id")
are you trying to send the e-mail? Is
"ausmtp05.au.xxx.com" an MX server for that
domain? (A simple typographical error in the
address might explain this problem.)

alp $ telnet /port = 25 ausmtp05.au.xxx.com
%TELNET-I-TRYING, Trying ... 206.207.85.33
%TELNET-E-CONNFAIL, Failed to connect to remote host
-SYSTEM-F-REJECT, connect to network object rejected

That system doesn't seem to be running an
SMTP server, which is consistent with your
"Failed to connect" message.