How to setup to send emails from HP/UX 11 to windows 2000

[Ferdie Banu_2]

Hi guys,

I'm just new to HP/UX . Can you help me how to setup an emails in HP/UX 11. What I want to know is that everytime I backup my files in tape, i want the unix notify me if its successful or not thru emails.

Thanks In advance,


Ferdie Banu

[Steven E. Protter]

You can run the script like this:

backupscript | mailx -s "backup report" youremail@your.net

That will email the output

Same thing works great in cron.

On a basic level, mailx will do the job.

SEP

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi ferdie,

also have a look at the following thread to get idea of what configuration tasks that you also have to perform...

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=348576

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=70999


hope this helps too!

regards
Yogeeraj

[Gary Cooper_1]

Hi Ferdie,

Here's what I do...
Firstly check out the script (I'm sure there's loads of improvements that could be made, but it works for me).

Firstly, add area5.cgs.com (this is the domain for my Exchange server) to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
#Dj$w.Foo.COM

Changed to:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
#Dj$w.area5.cgs.com

The following lines were added to /etc/mail/aliases:

# Local aliases
gcooper : gcooper@ntserver.area5.cgs.com
hdavies : hdavies@ntserver.area5.cgs.com
arazieh : arazieh@ntserver.area5.cgs.com

Rebuild the alias database:

# newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases: 10 aliases, longest 30 bytes, 199 bytes total
#

(Ntserver is my exchange server)

(Note the above e-mail addresses are fabricated, so they won't work if you try to use them).

Regards,

Gary

[Muthukumar_5]

To successfully get mails then, hostname.domainname must be resolved there. If your having an account in local mail server domain called test.com then,

-- /etc/resolv.conf ----
domain test.com
nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
------------------------

xx.xx.xx.xx --> ip-address of nameserver 1,2

Change resolvation order on /etc/nsswitch.conf as,

hosts: dns files

Try to resolve hostname as,

nslookup hostname.domainname.domainextension

Example:
nslookup test.test.com

It has to resolved there.

If you are having an account named as banu then,

echo "hai" | mailx -s "Testmail from `hostname`" banu@test.com

It will send mails to your banu account mail client there.


Check backup results with their results / log files and with the success send mails there.

if [[ result success ]]
then
echo "Filename $file get backuped" | mailx -s "Backup Success on`hostname`" banu@test.com

elif [[ result failure ]]
then
echo "Filename $file did not get backuped" | mailx -s "Backup failure on`hostname`" banu@test.com
fi


Put this script on cron to automate or execute during your execution of backup there.

HTH.

[Franky_1]

Hi,

just use mailx to get the desired output

Your_backup_script
.
.
.
output | mailx -s "Message"

Regards

Franky