Mailx and sendmail conf issues

[Chitta]

Hi,
I want to send mail from my HP UNIX 11.23 machine to my personal mail id.

I tried sendmail -v -s "test msg" abc@xyz.com < exp.txt but no message on the screen,
then mailx -s Test abc@xyz.com < exp.txt
my /var/adm/syslog/mail.log shows below error message:

Jun 3 12:56:15 abctst sendmail[17189]: m4UI9Ra18155: to=abc@xyz.com, delay=3+22:46:48, mailer=esmtp, pri=17100006, relay=root@localhost, dsn=4.4.
3, stat=Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery


then i checked /var/spool/mqueue , All mails are fall in the mqueue,

I am ver new to UNIX, So i don,t know whether Synatx error or mail confuguration error>

please reply ASAP,
Regs,
Chitta

[OFC_EDM]

Your mail queue is full?

If so you most likely have a DNS issue.

You need to make sure your SMTP mail server is seen by the server.

Use sendmail -bv email address to test if the address is reachable.

Not if you have a lot of mail in the queue you may want to clear it out first before fixing the DNS issue. You could potentially send out a lot of old useless mail otherwise.

For the DNS start with checking your /etc/resolv.conf and your nsswitch.conf. As well as your hosts file.

You may also have to quote your subject.
mailx -s "Test" abc@xyz.com < exp.txt

To attach the file instead
uuencode exp.txt exp.txt mailx -m -s "Test" abc@xyz.com

Cheers

[OFC_EDM]

typo...

Not should be Note in the following paragraph...from my prev post.

Note if you have a lot of mail in the queue you may want to clear it out first before fixing the DNS issue. You could potentially send out a lot of old useless mail otherwise.

[Jeeshan]

where is your DNS server and mail relay server is it windows DNS?
for mail relay, is it MS Exchange server?

[Chitta]

Hi,
i had deleted all mails in the queue,
and my DNS is configured in windows,

I cannot find reslov.conf file and am not able to send local OS user to eg:

all the mail gos to dead.letter file.

Regs,
Chitta.

[Chitta]

Also p pasted the version,

Version 8.11.1 (PHNE_35951

Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS
QUEUE SASL SCANF SMTP USERDB XDEBUG

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = abctst
(canonical domain name) $j = abctst
(subdomain name) $m =
(node name) $k =
========================================================

WARNING: local host name (abctst) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter

> 8.11.1
Regs,
Chitta

[Jeeshan · Accepted solution]

If you have DNS and Exchange setup in windows you need to configure sendmail in different manner.

1. configure /etc/resolv.conf with domain name, nameserver IP
2. /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
3. configure macro DS to DSexchange_relay_name
- configure macro Dj$w. to Dj$w.
- put to /etc/hosts (don't forget the dot at the end)

4. - start end stop sendmail to take modifications in sendmail.cf active.
- configure exchage to accept relay this host.

5. Save and quit sendmail.cf
6./sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
7./sbin/init.d/sendmail start
8. echo test | sendmail -v

[Chitta]

Hi ashan,

Can you tell me for mailx configuration,
Because my requirement is mailx,

Regs,
Chitta

[Jeeshan]

Hi

mailx - interactive message processing system, there is not such configuration for this.

see man page of mailx

#man mailx

[Chitta]

Hi,
Thanks for quick reply,

when i tried to send mail it directly goes to mqueue,
I am not sure whether DNS is configured but am able to ping my exchange server which is resieds on Windows.

Here we Go " if wannt to send mail using MAILX from my Unix server to my personal Mail address i.e, yahoo.com " what i need to configure?

i think it will solve my issues.


Please Advice,
Regs,
Chitta.