topic sendmail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail problem

j773303 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:39:36 GMT

I've question about sendmail. When use "sendmail -void root < /etc/host",
the root doesen't receviced the mail. But the mail received by informix user. I've no .forward in root home directory. Does anyone knows any configuration would caused this problem? Thanks

Re: sendmail problem

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:50:30 GMT

Hi,

check you aliases in the /etc/mail/aliases file.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: sendmail problem

whiteknight — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:52:52 GMT

Hi,

your command
#sendmail -v root < /etc/hosts, looks fine to me.

You may want to capture verbose output and post here.

WK

Re: sendmail problem

Joelmel Roche — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:01:58 GMT

Assuming that Sendmail has been correctly configured and is working
properly, perform the following steps to configure Sendmail to send
'root's' mail to a specific system:

1. Add the following entry to the '/etc/mail/aliases' file:

root : root, user@hostname.com

Note: This entry instructs the system to keep a copy on the local
host and also send the mail to the specified user, in this
case, user@hostname.com.

2. Execute the following command:

sendmail -bi

Note: If you desire, you can execute the '/usr/sbin/newaliases'
command instead of the 'sendmail -bi' command.

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

3. Test your configuration by sending a message to 'root':

mailx root

4. Execute one of the following commands to check the mail queue:

mailq