Mail from Unix HP to NT

[bossuyt]

Problem :
We have an Unix STATION and we want to send a mail to an exchange NT server.
What about configuration of DNS for this station.
For instance, when we send a mail we use this sentence on Unix station :

$ mail username@domainame

it seems that domainname is not correctly configure on DNS ?????

thanks's for your answer ......

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

to verify your DNS you colud check it with:
nslookup
Check the /etc/resolv.conf if there is a
nameserver defined.

Another note:
You can define your NT-Box as a smart relay host:
Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
DS.domain
Then stop and restart sendmail:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Greetings

Andrew

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP · Accepted solution]

bossuyt,

It should not matter whether you are running DNS or not on the Unix Workstation. The most important component of the mail command is that the user@domainname resolves to the user on the NT Server.

What is the hostname.domainname for the NT Server?

On the Unix workstation, can you perform a nslookup for the hostname.domainname and resolve the NT Server?

This will work whether the hostname.domainname is in DNS or in the /etc/hosts file. We can further expolore these details when you provide a bit more information on the above.