hp sendmail help

[Steven Chen_1]

Hi,

I would like to have hpux10.20 sendmail 8.7 to send mails to our existing SGI sendmail 8.8 box or NT4 Exchange Server that relay mails to users. I have made it receiving mails, but not able to send mails out. We do not have DNS server, but use ISP's. All servers are behind firewall.

Is it something related to DNS, such as the resolv.conf file? Please help giving me some guide as what I have to do.

Very appreciated.

Steven

[Dave Kelly_1]

If you run

sendmail -v user@domain.com

you will be able to see if a successful connection is being made.

If not, please can you describe what sort of errors are being reported.

You can also check /var/adm/syslog/mail.log to see if any errors are being logged.

Finally, you can run the command:

mailq

to show you a list of the messages currently in the message queue and also an indication as to why they have not been sent.

[Steven Chen_1]

Thanks for the help.

By using "sendmail -v xxx@domain.com", I got the following error:
"Warning: alias database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date".

Can you tell me who to update aliases.db please?

Very appreciated.

[Steven Chen_1]

update of my sendmail status:

after "newaliases" command issued, I see no error message sending mail out, but I still could not receive this mail from other server.

The other server is our regular unix mail server.

[Dave Kelly_1 · Accepted solution]

If you run the sendmail -v command on the other server to this one, what kind of problems do you see ?

[Andreas Garbe]

Hi Steven,

you can config the sendmail.cf.

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
#--- IP-Adresse mail-hosts
DS[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] # your mailhost

i hope that's all for your HP

Best regards