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

sendmail !

Ivan Azuara — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:04:16 GMT

Hi !

I'm triying to find information about how can I configure the sendmail or something similar in HPUX for send messages to determinate e-mail address.

My intention is send a file generated in HPUX to determinate e-mail account (user@company.com). I have HP-UX 11.00.

Somebody know when can i start ?.

Best Regards !

Re: sendmail !

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:19:06 GMT

Hi Ivan,

start from this link,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/35-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/35-toc.html&searchterms=sendmail&queryid=20020910-142312

Then do a search on the forum solution to learn more about using relay and other sendmail configuration issues.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: sendmail !

Ted Ellis_2 — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:36:24 GMT

if you are just trying to send a file or message to a specific email account, I would recommend using a script with something similar to:

mailx -s "Subject or Title" email_address@domain <

this will take the contents of a message file and make it the input to a mailx command.... if you have a standard install of sendmail, it may not need much. Make sure the aliases file has what you need. If you make a change, run newaliases to create a new alias database for sendmail. If you are not chasing down security stuff with sendmail, the main thing that may need a tweak is the smart relay variable in the sendmail.cf file.... DS

good luck

Re: sendmail !

Anil Sedha — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:47:23 GMT

yes.. you can start right away.

mailx -s "subject text" userid@test.com < filename

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Re: sendmail !

John Caivano — Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:21:14 GMT

Hi,

I also had to do this recently, and the forum was the place to start.

Steps I took:

1) Change sendmail.cf settings, (in HP-UX 11.0 this is in /etc/mail) so the the "Smart" Relay Host entry is set to your relay server, (it was exchange 5.5 here)the entry should be DS.
2) Edit /etc/hosts so the mail (relay) server is listed, using the fully qualified domain name if applicable.
3) You may need to have an entry in nsswitch.conf to resolve DNS. I needed the entry
"hosts: files"
4) Stop/Start sendmail daemon
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

This should do it. Hope this helps as the forum helped me.

John