configuration of sendmail

[bunty.....]

Hi Friends,
I need to configure sendmail on my server.
Can you please help me how to do that?

This service is being established to enable system level alerts to be forwarded via email to support staff.

Please suggest.
Thanks
bunty

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom bunty,

Sendmail is enabled by default.

All you need to make it work is a network connection to the mail server you wish to recieve the mail and hostname resolution if you are sending mail by domain name.

Test:

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 anaddress@your.net

type some text

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Other tools

sendmail -v -q # runs the mail queue verbose

mailq

Look at sendmail.cf for your current sendmail configuration.

Look at /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail

If the start variable is 1 you are running the sendmail receive daemon, but that is not needed to send mail.

There may be nothing to do on your hpux server at all.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

Verify the /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file:


export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1
export SENDMAIL_RECVONLY=0
export SENDMAIL_SENDONLY=0

If you want to do masquerade, you could set:

export SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME=

To something.

If you want to use a SMART Host to forward messages, edit the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file and add:

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
# DS
DSmailserver.domain.com

If you don't use smart host, your dns configuration must be working correctly. Check your /etc/resolv.conf file and /etc/nsswitch.conf.

[bunty.....]

please suggest

[Shameer.V.A]

Hi Bunty,
Please see the following thread, which is having detailed way to configure/ check the configuration of sendmail..

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=987413


Regards,

shameer

[Steven E. Protter]

bunty,

My mail test above to an outide email address with the sendmail.cf DS directive off will provide proof of good DNS.

You will see an error message and the script will hang if name resolution does not work.

SEP