topic Setup Mailbox, help! in Operating System - HP-UX

Setup Mailbox, help!

Peston Foong — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:44:41 GMT

Dear all hpux experts.

I found that hpux 11 could be setup a mailbox, it allow for all the user to send thier emails via hpux instead of other email server.

But I quite new in hpux and seeking for help how do I setup a mail box via hpux 11.

1. What are the proper procedure that need to be setup?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Setup Mailbox, help!

Printaporn_1 — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:17:33 GMT

very simple program is just call elm

Re: Setup Mailbox, help!

Peston Foong — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:54:16 GMT

Hi, Printapor.

elm. How do I send the email out? How to I setup the mail account? For example, users login is sysmis01, sysmis02, sysmis03..sysmis09.

If I want to send email to sysmis03. Then I just write send to: sysmis03.

But he(sysmis03) couldn't receive my email after a email been sent to sysmis03?

Thank you in advance. Who those know this problem please help. Thank you so much.

Redards,
Peston.

Re: Setup Mailbox, help!

Frank Li — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:21:27 GMT

This is one way:-

1.check whether the sendmail is running on the system ( ps -ef | grep sendmail ) , if not , edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs , set the SENDMAIL_SERVER to 1 . and start sendmail daemon (/sbin/init.d/sendmail start)

2. Then use : mailx user@system2 to give a mail to user on system2.

Re: Setup Mailbox, help!

Michael Tully — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:35:02 GMT

There are a few things to check first:

1. Set up mail aliases
2. Make sure that your DNS is setup correctly
3. Make sure that your /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
has your domain.
4. Sendmail is running. (use ps -ef |grep sendmail)

Have something similar to this:

/etc/mail/alaises
# Local aliases
sysadmin: your.name@yourdomain.com

/etc/mail/sendmail.cw
localhost
system1.yourdomain.com

Try this to mail yourself
# elm -s "test" your.name@yourdomain.com

You may get a message about setting up directories just say "yes"

HTH
Michael