topic Re: sendmail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail problem

kamal vithanage — Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:35:25 GMT

Hi All,
I have two hp 9000 and both should use to send mail via our imail server (nt base)
1.one server is working without any problem (hp-ux version 10.20)
2. the other server not working.(hp-ux 11) imail server log file is giving error
both servers configuration file same.
please help me to rectify the problem

Re: sendmail problem

Denver Osborn — Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:38:40 GMT

What version of sendmail is running on the 10.20/11.0 box?

What error is reported in the imail log file?

-denver

Re: sendmail problem

Roger Baptiste — Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:14:44 GMT

hi,

Is the sendmail.cf file configured correctly on the problemsystem?? To check it compare
the entries of this file on the two systems

#grep "^D" /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

THe DS entry should point to the relay.

TO test it, do
#sendmail -vt mailid@domain
test
.

If any problems, post the output of this.

HTH
raj

Re: sendmail problem

kamal vithanage — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:00:58 GMT

Hi raj,
I can send mail within the domain, how can I send the mail to outside
I hope you can undestand my question
ex: if I send a mail to hotmail account it says,
"550 not local host hotmail.com user unknown"

Kamal

Kamal

Re: sendmail problem

Michael Tully — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:26:19 GMT

Hi,

Have a look at this link:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xa6f1c6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: sendmail problem

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:27:03 GMT

Hi,

If you want to send mail outside domain then you need to change DS entry in sendmail.cf DS should point to Mail server name.
Check which is your mail server /DNS server
and then restart the sendmail
Godluck
-USA..

Re: sendmail problem

Joseph Chakkery — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:56:35 GMT

Hello Kamal,

Check for the following things in ur server for sending mails from HP server to external via sendmail.

Do the following.
(1) Get SMTP relay host name and IP address (Eg: 128.9.7.30 abcd_relay)

For sendmail to be activated to send mail to xxxxx.com.

a)put relay hostname to DS on sendmail.cf in /etc/mail directory (eg: DSabcd_relay).

b)Create nsswitch.conf in /etc by copying nsswitch.file as nsswitch.conf. (IF DNS is not enabled on ur HP server).

c)Add relay host IP entry to /etc/hosts file. (IP of abcd_relay)

d)Stop and start sendmail dameon again.

After this u can send a test mail using

# cat /etc/hosts | mailx -m -s "Test mail " mail_id@xxxx.com

Hope this will help u.

Regards
Joe.