topic Re: sendmail and mailx not sending mail to outlook in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail and mailx not sending mail to outlook

KPS — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:03:38 GMT

I'm having issues sending a test mail message to Microsoft Exchange/Outlook. I send it from my HP-UX 11.0 server and it shows no errors on this side or dead letters....

I go to my mailbox in Outlook/Exchange and no mail shows up. This is working on other systems that I have in the same network. I'm wondering what I can check and if there are any daemons that may have not gotten started.

Re: sendmail and mailx not sending mail to outlook

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:09:32 GMT

check in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file where exactly your mails are going. It may be landing in your mail relay server.
You will have better idea if you check mail.log file.

-USA..

Re: sendmail and mailx not sending mail to outlook

harry d brown jr — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:42:43 GMT

can you supply the command you are using to send mail?

is your sendmail.cf configured like the other machines?

live free or die
harry

Re: sendmail and mailx not sending mail to outlook

KPS — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:03:57 GMT

I figured out my problem while waiting for some responese...

1.) I did a check in the /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
to see if I was getting dead.letter or errors.
It was saying it could not see the relay host being specified.

2.) I then did a vi of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and changed the relay server to the one we needed and I'm now having the capability to mailx and sendmail.

Thanks for your ideas......

Re: sendmail and mailx not sending mail to outlook

Andrew Cowan — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 06:23:00 GMT

Ken,

This is a well-known problem, and is caused by the way that MS Outlook (Express)/Exchange parses it messages. If my memory servers me correctly, you can view email error messages from within Outlook, and you will see that it is expecting to find a " (quote) and there isn't one, or there is one, and it doesn't like it. Try searching the MS Technet for more details as I know this effects AIX systems as well.

The solution was incredibly simple once you find the right article. I think you just have to change one line in your "sendmail.cf".

Sorry to be so vague but it was more than five years ago when I last tackled this one.