Checking relay mail server

[C_V]

Hi guys im not good in sendmail hope you can help me.

i tried to send a test email from one of our server echo "test email" | sendmail -v email address. and as i review the output it says that the email was successfully delivered the mail, so i guess there is no problem with the servers mail system.

however the test email was not received, is there a way to check if the relay server has sent the email.

i check the network connection between the server and relay server and its fine.

How i check if there is something wrong with the relay server?

[Niceguy_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please check this output and look the mail queue is empty if it is emty only the mail will be get delivered correctly.

#sendmail -bp

[Dennis Handly]

Have you looked at /var/adm/syslog/mail.log?

[WW186637]

1.Did you check the /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file.?

[C_V]

sendmail -bp says that the mail queue is empty.


As per mail.log the mail was accepted for delivery.

[Dennis Handly]

>As per mail.log the mail was accepted for delivery.

Was that to the target machine or a relay? Can you look at that machine's mail.log to see what it did with the message?

[C_V]

That was to the machine's mail.log

[Bill Hassell]

Try sending a test message with sendmail -v. This will provide some additional details:

sendmail -v bill@bill.com < /etc/profile

If the message is accepted by the server, then your HP-UX sendmail is configured OK. So you'll have to check the mail server to what is has done to your mail. It may be rejected internally and simply not returned back to your server.

[C_V]

Yes the test mails i sent was accepted and was delivered, but how do i check the mail server to know if it really delivered the mail.

[Dennis Handly]

>but how do I check the mail server to know if it really delivered the mail.

Send it to yourself on that server?
Why would it get to the mail server and not be delivered?