sendmail config for workflow mailer

[Meakin Singh]

hi,

currently iam configuring workflow mail for EBS 11.5.10.2, but i ned to configure senmail for that purpose , my OS is HP UX 11.11

we do have a seperate mail server in our organisation , can i send mail directly from my Unix server to mail clients configured with the mail server which i suppose is configured with some version of linux, we use outlook express as a mail client on windows platform

[TTr]

It is very common to have a single mailbox so that your users don't have to login to more than one email system to get their email. So unless you are overwhelmingly asked otherwise by your users or management, the outlook mailbox should be your single email delivery endpoint.

[Meakin Singh]

ok,but hw do i configure sendmail, i want to send mails(notifications) from HP UX server to windows clients

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

vi /etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs

Set the sendmail variable to 1 so the daemon auto starts.

/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Configure sendmail.cf file to this:

DSrelayserver_hostname

replace relayserver_hostname with the hostname or IP address of a system that is configured to relay smtp traffic inside your organization.

SEP

[Meakin Singh]

sir,

i dont intend to send mails outside my organisation, plz tell me how do start mail from HP UX server to LAN windows based clients

[Meakin Singh]

Sir,

whenevr i try starting sendmail i get this error

/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Mar 6 17:46:27 test sendmail[28950]: problem creating SMTP socket
Mar 6 17:47:12 test sendmail[28950]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting

[TTr]

> i dont intend to send mails outside my organisation, plz tell me how do start mail from HP UX server to LAN windows based clients

What SEP replied to you earlier is what is needed. Why did you assume he was telling you how to send email outside your organization?

If you have done what SEP suggested, you will need to talk to your exchange administrator to allow your EBS host to relay mail to the exchange system.

[Meakin Singh]

i get it sir

but what about the error i have mentioned

iam unable to start sendmail

[TTr]

> problem creating SMTP socket

Sendmail is probably running already. You need to stop it and restart it.

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

[Mel Burslan]

As SEP previously said, in order to relay mail to MS Exchange servers, you have to be able to communicate with an exchange mail gateway, by means of configuring your smart relay host as

DSmail-relay-hostname

in your sendmail.cf file
Make sure you talk to the administrators of this mail relay host and have them add the ip address of your server to their authorized mail forwarders list (or whatever they are calling it). Otherwise, you will get mailbox not available messages every time you try to send a message

Hope this clears it.