topic Re: email setup in Operating System - HP-UX

email setup

ng_7 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:07:46 GMT

hi, experts

I tried to send mail from my unix to my email account, but I received nothing. below are my step

app:/# mail alson.ng@tamco.com.my
testing mail
testing mail

ctrl-D

what are the setting that I need to set to make this work ?

thank you

regards
ng

Re: email setup

Mel Burslan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:17:26 GMT

Edit your sendmail configuration file

vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

find the line starting with letters

DS

get the name of your organization's email relay server. Lets say it is exchange.tamco.com.my. Then change this line as follows:

DSexchange.tamco.com.my

if there is no such line, create one like this one above

save the file and exit

talk to the email server administrators and tell them to allow your machine (give them the server name and ip address) to relay mail to outside.

That should do it

Re: email setup

Andrey Chipalyuk — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:26:16 GMT

You must see mail.log file to determine what what do happen when you send mail.

/var/adm/syslog/mail.log

mail.log give you some information.
For example, you can see:

Jul 9 12:06:16...from=...
Jul 9 12:06:16...to=...relay=...stat=Sent...Queued mail for delivery

mail.log have error messages as well.

Re: email setup

ng_7 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:13:22 GMT

I got this :

Jul 9 09:03:41 tamcoapp sendmail[3449]: JAA03449: to=alson.ng@tamco.com.my, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, stat=queued
Jul 9 12:54:58 tamcoapp sendmail[18979]: IAA02587: MAA18979: return to sender: Warning: could not send message for past 4 ho
urs
Jul 9 12:54:58 tamcoapp sendmail[18979]: MAA18979: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
Jul 9 13:15:00 tamcoapp sendmail[20050]: NAA20050: from=root, size=260, class=0, pri=30260, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200907090515.NA
A20050@tamcoapp.tamco.com.my>, relay=root@localhost
Jul 9 13:15:00 tamcoapp sendmail[20053]: NAA20050: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/3), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=loca
l, stat=Sent
Jul 9 13:25:58 tamcoapp sendmail[20579]: JAA03449: NAA20579: return to sender: Warning: could not send message for past 4 ho
urs
Jul 9 13:25:58 tamcoapp sendmail[20579]: NAA20579: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
Jul 9 13:25:58 tamcoapp sendmail[20579]: JAA03335: NAB20579: return to sender: Warning: could not send message for past 4 ho
urs
Jul 9 13:25:58 tamcoapp sendmail[20579]: NAB20579: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
Jul 9 13:25:59 tamcoapp sendmail[20579]: JAA03438: NAC20579: return to sender: Warning: could not send message for past 4 ho
urs
Jul 9 13:25:59 tamcoapp sendmail[20579]: NAC20579: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent
Jul 9 14:07:55 tamcoapp sendmail[23328]: OAA23328: from=root, size=11, class=0, pri=30011, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200907090607.OAA
23328@tamcoapp.tamco.com.my>, relay=root@localhost
Jul 9 14:07:55 tamcoapp sendmail[23328]: OAA23328: to=alson.ng@tamco.com.my, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, stat=queued

Re: email setup

Basheer_2 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:51:08 GMT

Follow Mel's steps

then stop and start the sendmail
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Re: email setup

Andrey Chipalyuk — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:44:24 GMT

Check your DNS and network settings, available of your mail exchanger server.
For example, you can get address of your mail exchanger server for the next way:

nslookup -type=MX your.domain.name

P.S. Don't forget to set points for reply of your questions.

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

Re: email setup

ng_7 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:03:23 GMT

I still not able to send mail from my unix box after add my mail relay server to the DS.

DS

but still not able to send.

thanks

Re: email setup

Mel Burslan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:43:14 GMT

please post the output from this command

echo test | sendmail -v alson.ng@tamco.com.my

Re: email setup

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:59:03 GMT

Shalom,

Your server is not being permitted to relay mail to the server specified with the DS parameter.

You can test this:

telnet servername 25

If you denied access the relay server must be configured to permit relay.

SEP

Re: email setup

ng_7 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:25:14 GMT

I have tried the below commnand in Unix

1. nslookup -type=MX your.domain.name

Using /etc/hosts on: tamcoapp

looking up FILES
*** No address information is available for "mail.tamco.com.my"

then I add in mail.tamco.com.my into /etc/hosts. it give the server and ip result

2. echo test | sendmail -v alson.ng@tamco.com.my
alson.ng@tamco.com.my... tamco.com.my: Name server timeout
alson.ng@tamco.com.my... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
alson.ng@tamco.com.my... queued

3. telnet 25

I am able to telnet

Re: email setup

Andrey Chipalyuk — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:58:39 GMT

>>nslookup -type=MX your.domain.name
>>*** No address information is available for "mail.tamco.com.my"
>>alson.ng@tamco.com.my... tamco.com.my: Name server timeout

Check your DNS settings. For example:

/etc/resolv.conf

Re: email setup

ng_7 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:15:46 GMT

1. I have put server into /etc/hosts, and I got reply from the below command

nslookup -type=MX ,

I got server and address information now.

2. And I have tried

then stop and start the sendmail
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

but I still cannot sent email from my Unix box, what should I check next ?

thanks

Re: email setup

ng_7 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:19:16 GMT

forgot to tell you my mail log show stat=queue