topic Re: Not receiving emails in Operating System - HP-UX

Not receiving emails

YMJ — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:15:52 GMT

Hi all

I have windows xp box running outlook 2000 and mozilla thunderbird. we have an email server (exchange) for the company. and we have UNIX server box. I want to receive email alerts regarding any administration actions like backups, shutdowns , ... etc

the problem is the connection can't be established by the two email clients.

I check the networking is OK (telnet, ftp are OK), the services are running (smtp, pop, pop3 are OK).

I figure out what the problem is?

THANKS
-YMJ

Re: Not receiving emails

harry d brown jr — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:29:23 GMT

Does the LACKof_exchange server have imap open? The default is mapi, which NO non-commercial product can use!

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harry d brown jr

Re: Not receiving emails

Geoff Wild — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:58:00 GMT

Try setting the the Smart Relay in sendmail.cf to the exchange server:

DSexchangeservername

You may also need to set the DM macro to:

DMyourdomain.com

Then restart sendmail (if running).

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Not receiving emails

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:32:06 GMT

Chucks Harry,

The second post also needs the exchange server set up to accept relay from the Unix server. To Microsoft's credit by default exchange servers will not relay mail for other hosts. That has to be set up expicitly.

To get some diagnosis on Unix.

mailq

See if mail is backing up in the outbound queue.

sendmail -v -q (as root)

See what the error code is when you try and pusth the mail queue in verbose mode.

sendmail -v -d 8.99 -d 38.99 someone@exchangeserver.net

a line of funny text

.

This will get you verbose error output.

With diagnosis, a cure is possible.

SEP

Re: Not receiving emails

harry d brown jr — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:07:28 GMT

Thunderbird (mozilla) on his xp box can only talk to a LACKof_exchange server only if imap or possibly pop3 is open. You can see I'm not a fan of M$'s exchange product!

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harry d brown jr