Sendmail Issue

[Omprakash_2]

Hi,

Can you pls suggest me to resolve the sendmail issue. Service has been started successfully. but mails are not moving. Kindly find the attached doc. for your reference

[Jeeshan]

is your sendmail act as relay server or forwarding?

check in /etc/resolv.conf file.

[Omprakash_2]

Hi,

I have checked and compared the same with another working server its fine and also checked file permission.

[Dennis Handly]

Have you looked at those files in mailq?
vi /var/spool/mqueue/?fKAA02045

[Omprakash_2]

Hi,

The mqueue directory is empty. I have removed all the files before.

[Jeeshan]

also check the mail log (/var/adm/syslog/mail.log)

[Omprakash_2]

Hi,

Having that with lot of errors like:

Oct 22 09:22:31 md2080 sendmail[29147]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): dbm map "Alias0":
unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases: No such file or directory


Feb 3 10:46:28 md2080 sendmail[2232]: KAA02230: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/3), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, stat=Sent

[VK2COT]

Run:

# newaliases

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Omprakash_2]

Dear All,

Its displaying the below mentioned. Then i tried to send mail but no response.

# newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases: 8 aliases, longest 15 bytes, 109 bytes total

[VK2COT]

Hello,

OK, you fixed one problem.

Now the next.

a) Test if local mail deliver works.

# mailx -s test root

If the mail gets delivered to root,
than local delivery is fine.

b) Judging by the document you sent,
remote email delivery doe snot work.

Two options:

1. Your server must be configured to reach
internet freely (that is quite suicidal
and insecure),

or

2. Your sendmail setup must be configured
to use Smart Host (look for DS line
in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf).

Most probably that line currently loosk like:

DS

.. And what is should look like is:

DSsmtprelay

whene smtprelay is a hostname for the
machine that acts as email gateway in
your company.

Cheers,

VK2COT