topic Re: mail in Operating System - HP-UX

mail

Stefano_10 — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:18:37 GMT

What i have to configure to send e-mail out of my unix system?

Re: mail

Chuck J — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:22:04 GMT

You have to ensure the sendmail daemon is running

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

HP-UX should automatically pick up an SMTP server. I configured nothing special on my workstation and it send and receives mail fine.

Chuck J

Re: mail

Chuck J — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:25:09 GMT

You could also send a test from the command line:

# echo Testing | mailx -s "Test email" you@domain.com

Chuck J

Re: mail

Niraj Kumar Verma — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:25:21 GMT

Hi,

To configure sendmail use

# vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

and then start the sendmail

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

see man sendmail for more info.

-Niraj

Re: mail

Chuck J — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:29:23 GMT

Here's also a link to the HP sendmail doc:

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

Re: mail

Stefano_10 — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:52:33 GMT

is it necessary that the server is inserted into a domain?

Re: mail

Chuck J — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:19:27 GMT

Well mail is based on sending via DNS so yes this is preferable.

Please assign points to any answers that are helpful.

Thanks. Chuck J

Re: mail

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:33:55 GMT

Hi Stefano,

You have to do at least 3 things:

1) Edit sendmail.cf for proper domain name & smart relay system
A) Domain name is the Dj parameter in the file - Example:
Dj$w.company.com
The $w is required
B) The smart relay is the DS parameter in the file - Example
DSmailsrvr.company.com
OR
DSmailsrvr.$m
This is the server that your server will send mail to if it's not local mail.

2) Edit the sendmail.cw file to designate the systems that this server will accept mail for.
Should look like

localhost
hostname
hostname.company.com

3) Start sendmail after these changes
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

HTH,
Jeff