how to configure mail service on HP-UX (B.11.23)

[Vipin Singhal]

Hi Everybody,
Please let me know
how to configure mail service on HP-UX (B.11.23).

Please tell me step by step commands,
I am very much thankful to all of you

[Steven E. Protter]

Hello Vpin,

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-0707/ch02s01.html

Rejecting unsolicited mail:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-0707/ch02s08.html

Configuring and administering sendmail
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-0707/ch02.html

Good Luck and good reading.

SEP

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Vipin,

In a nutshell, at a minimum, you need to do four things:

1) Configure the sendmail.cf files for your fully qualified domain name. That's the Dj parm & you'll enter
Dj$w.company.com. The $w is an alias for hostname & you define your domain here

2) Define the smart relay to send outgoing mail to. That's the DS parm & you'll enter
DSmailhost.subnet.company.com

3) Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file to enable auto-starting sendmail
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1

4) Start sendmail
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

That'll will get it going for sending & receiving mail.

HTH,
Jeff

[Vipin Singhal]

Hi Jeff,
Can you please tell me the step by step commands to configure the sendmail(SMTP) server.
Even I am not able to find sendmail.cf and what does DS & Dj means? So please tell me the commands to do it.
Thanks
Vipin

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Hi Vipin,

nobody can spoonfeed you on sendmail. this is huge and definitely need some time for you to study something about sendmail.

Okay, here is the question:

1. Did you have sendmail installed on your system?

2. What do you mean by mail service? Do you want to send email to another hosts from HP system only?

3. Do you want to receive email if remote host sends email?

rgrds
Vijay Chinnasamy

[Jeff Schussele]

Well you need to do the following:

1&2) vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Then search for Dj - specifically the line starting with Dj then add the info following the Dj. Do the same for the line starting with DS

3) vi /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs
change
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=0
to
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1

4) simply run
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

And it should be noted that the mail relay server needs to allow sendmail connections from your server to accept it's mail.

And as stated there is more, MUCH more that can be done with sendmail. But the above will get you going.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Vipin Singhal]

ya , I agree with you

These are the answers of your questions:

1. I dont have sendmail installed on my server
2. I just need to configure sendmail to send mails from my server
3. No, I dont want to receive email if remote host sends email

Please try 2 help me

[Jeff Schussele]

OK - if you don't want to receive mail then simply delete steps 3 & 4.
But note that if the relay does not or cannot receive mail on the first attempt then the mail will sit in the queue - literally forever.
Unless the SA maually reattempts delivery OR you set up a cron job to periodically flush the queue.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Refer the steps posted by Jeff. Jeff has all the answers for config part.

Before you follow Jeff's steps, you need to install sendmail depots in your HP systems.

Search "install depot" in ITRC, you will find plenty of answers.

rgds
Vijay Chinnasamy

[A. Kay]

After adding the smart relay (DS line as indicated by Jeff). You may have to enable/give access to this server on your relay host.
test the mail with mailx -v your_email_address. If you receive relay denied by the relay server then you will have to add the IP address of this server to the relay host. This depend on the security in place on your mail server.
Let me know if you receive the relay denied and I can help you further.

[Steven E. Protter]

Re-run my earlier diagnostic test.

Windows Exchange and other mail servers require explicit authorization for relay. If this is not properly granted the mailq command will show the mail start to pile up.

SEP

[Vipin Singhal]

So these will be steps from scratch:

1.Download the software depot to any directory. For example: /tmp.

2. #swinstall -s /tmp/Sendmail-811_11.00.depot

3. #vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
then I will change in "#Dj$w.Foo.COM"
I will do it "Djserver_name.company_name.COM"
Then
I will change in "DS"
I will do it "DSserver_name.company_name.COM"

4. vi /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs
change
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=0
to
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1

5. simply run
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

6. mailx -v vipin@yahoo.com
then i will get a mail on my yahoo ID.

Please give me your feedbacks

[Vipin Singhal]

Please update

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

yes, those are the steps you should take if the sendmail is not already loaded on your server. if it is just start at vi sendmail.cfg

[Vipin Singhal]

1.How will i find out that software is installed or not.

2.are all my these steps are correct?

3. If suppose, sendmail is already installed in my system,
I do all these my steps. Is there will be any problem ?

4. here is the output of
#swlist | grep sendmail
#
I couldnot find any output, i think , no sendmail is installed on my system

please update

[Vipin Singhal]

Please update...

[Deoncia Grayson_1 · Accepted solution]

sendmail resides /etc/mail, you should see the files sendmail.cf, aliases, sendmail.cw...etc
let me know if you see the files listed there

[Vipin Singhal]

yes, all these 3 files ( sendmail.cf,sendmail.cw & aliases) are in /etc/mail

Please update

[Arunvijai_4]

Alternative to sendmail, you can try anyone of
1) Qmail 2) Postfix also, installing Webmin on your server will allow you to configure these server (including sendmail) via browser.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-233.html

-Arun

[Vipin Singhal]

I need to configure sendmail as per client requirement

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi vipin

sendmail already be there.

swlist would not really show it to you.

e.g. on my system, when i run swlist, this is what i get:
# swlist -l product|grep -i sendmail
PHNE_29774 1.0 sendmail(1m) 8.9.3 patch

man sendmail also show me the man page...

also,
# ll /sbin/init.d/sendmail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 3688 Nov 14 2000 /sbin/init.d/sendmail


hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Vipin,

Sendmail is already present in your system. You can read this chpater for Installing and Administering sendmail http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90685/ch04.html

Also, make sure you have applied PHNE_29774 on your server. You can get it from,

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHNE_29774&context=hpux:800:11:11

-Arun

[Vipin Singhal]

thanks
i will see it and update you
vipin

[diwa]

Hi Vipin,

Thanks a lot for your query. I also have similar requirement to configure the SMTP server on HP Unix.
All the necessary files are present and also
send mail is configured. But when i trying to send mail to yahoo mail i am not getting any mail. But command is executing successfully. Can you please suggest or forward it to some one who can help?

Thanks in Advance.

[Steven E. Protter]

diwa,

welcome. ettiqute requests you write your own question so you can assign points and direct the discussion.

Post a link to this thread in your question.

SEP