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

sendmail ??

John McDen — Mon, 13 May 2002 19:25:30 GMT

[wtsdb15:/] sendmail -v user@xyz.com
xyz.com: Name server timeout
user@xyx.com... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
test
user@xyz.com... queued

Can't send email from unix...

HP-UX Ver 11.0

Re: sendmail ??

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 13 May 2002 19:30:24 GMT

Hi John,

Do you have sendmail configured on your system. If not first configure the sendmail,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/B2355-90147_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/00/00/35-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/00/00/35-toc.html&searchterms=configure%20sendmail&queryid=20020513-133623

Then setup a mail relay if you have a mail relay to relay mails to the other servers.

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=999868101823afac7d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048726177

Do a search on the forum with keyword sendmail and then go deeper into the search to look into more suggestions.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: sendmail ??

Ricardo Bassoi — Mon, 13 May 2002 19:33:54 GMT

To force all email to another mail relay, set the smart host, relay for unqualified addresses (no @host part), relay for all local addresses (ie @localhost), and masquerade:

DSserver1
DR$S
DH$S
DM$m

Then restart sendmail:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

And test:

$ sendmail -bv junk
junk... deliverable: mailer relay, host server1, user junk@server1

$ sendmail -bv junk@localhost
junk@localhost... deliverable: mailer relay, host server1, user junk@server1

$ sendmail -bv junk@some.other.net
junk@some.other.net... deliverable: mailer relay, host server1, user junk@some.other.net

$ sendmail -bv root
root... deliverable: mailer relay, host server1, root@server1

You should also consider disabling the smtp port if you don't intend to allow sendmail to receive messages from the network. Find sendmail -bd in /sbin/init.d/sendmail and remove the -bd.

Try this:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x69a7ee3e323bd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: sendmail ??

David Burgess — Mon, 13 May 2002 19:37:44 GMT

Hi John,

Take a look at this. It'll save me retyping it and keep it in context!

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa2817d4cf554d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

HTH,

Dave.

Re: sendmail ??

S.K. Chan — Mon, 13 May 2002 19:38:07 GMT

Looks like hostname resolution problem. A few things to check ..
a) Make sure /etc/mail/service.switch has .. (if you're using DNS).

hosts dns files
aliases files

b) /etc/nsswitch.conf file, check the desire resolution.

c) /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, check if mail relay is setup correctly.

Re: sendmail ??

U.SivaKumar_2 — Tue, 14 May 2002 06:17:47 GMT

hi,
give more details about your setup. are you
using DNS or /etc/hosts ?.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: sendmail ??

John McDen — Tue, 14 May 2002 13:24:21 GMT

Sanjay,

Yes Sendmail is configured...

David

Tried the stuff in the link but no luck...

Chan

Checked .. seems to be fine.. the exact same config works fine..on the other server...

Sivakumar,

I am confused ... there is an entry in the /etc/hosts file and I am sure we are using DNS...

I am totally new to sendmail. and have no idea... it was already setup ..

Thanks in advance for your help

Re: sendmail ??

John McDen — Tue, 14 May 2002 13:29:26 GMT

I just happend to see that we don't have resovl.conf but in the nsswitch.conf file we are using ..

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

I am not sure...please help me...

Re: sendmail ??

Mark Ellzey — Tue, 14 May 2002 16:21:41 GMT

To use DNS, create the /etc/resolv.conf file with 2 lines, as such:
domain
nameserver

This will allow the nameserver to resolve a host that is now in your /etc/host file.

Regards,
Mark

Re: sendmail ??

Mark Ellzey — Tue, 14 May 2002 16:23:17 GMT

Last line should read:
This will allow your nameserver to resolve a host that is NOT in your /etc/hosts file.