mailx uses assigned mail server -- can I?

[ran_li]

Can I assign a specific mail server for mailx to use? and how. Thanks.

[Ivan Ferreira]

I think that you can't, but you can use the sendmail command to send mails also like mailx, and you can specify a different configuration file indicating a different relay for the message using the -C option.

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can always use perl also, see:

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/PERL/node180.html

[ran_li]

Thanks for the reply.

I modified the sendmail.cf, provide the smart host at ^DS line, but still when I used sendmail command it did not use the mailhost that I assigned. Did I do this wrong?

Regards!

[ran_li]

one more question is ... how does mailx lookup the mail host? Thanks.

[Peter Nikitka · Accepted solution]

Hi,

mailx does not lookup for mailhost and so on, sendmail does it.

Concerning the DS macro change:
Check the value of the macros DR and DH as well.

mfG Peter

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

mailx uses your default MTA, which is sendmail.

All you need to is set up sendmail.cf with a DS directive to choose your relay server.

SEP

[ran_li]

Thanks, I ve already put a mail server(FQDN e.g. mailhost1.domain2.com) at DS directive but it always use another mailhost(mailhost2.domain2.com) instead of this one, that host(mailhost2) seems to be the default one.

Besides sendmail.cf anywhere else I should check for a clue? I don't think this unix host has the configuration for mailhost2.domain2.com, how come it became the default one.

/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1
export SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME=