Sendmail connection to Lotus Notes

[Cecilio Peral]

I need some help. I'm trying to send mail from the HP-UX machine to my Lotus Notes Server (V5). Apparently sendmail is well configured provided that I can send mail to another HP-UX machine located on the same LAN, but when I try to send to Notes machine (even on the same LAN) the address is not solved and the message not sent. For your information the Notes machine is declared on the etc/hosts file so I should be able to send mail to Notes users. Thanks for any help.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Cecilio,

Also make sure that the hp's IP address is resolvable on your notes system.

-Sri

[Jeff Machols]

One thing to try, put the address inside <>. Some versions of notes need this.

[Marco Paganini]

Hello Cecilio,

We need more information. What happens? What messages you get in your maillog? Does "mailq" show something interesting?

Regards,
Paga

[Steven Gillard_2 · Accepted solution]

I don't think Lotus Notes does SMTP unless there is a SMTP gateway set up. Can you telnet to port 25 of the Lotus notes server? Ie:

$ telnet 25

If you get "connection refused" then thats your problem. The output of mailq will also tell you what the error is.

Regards,
Steve

[Cecilio Peral]

Thats maht mailq shows

$mailq Mail Queue (3 requests) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ QAA12555 15 Thu Dec 13 16:09 mpl11 (Deferred: Connection refused by asland.asland.lafarge.com.) OAA08761 16 Thu Dec 13 14:51 mpl11 (Deferred: Connection refused by asland.asland.lafarge.com.) cecilio.peral@asland NAA06428 23 Thu Dec 13 13:31 mpl11 (Deferred: Connection refused by asland.asland.lafarge.com.) cecilio.peral@asland

What it seems to happen is that sendmailis adding asland.lafarge.com to the mail address.

The Notes system is prepared to accept mails sent as user@asland.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

What is the error you get while sending mails to lotus notes server..? You can check this in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file.

If the sendmail is configured correctly then try this and see the results

sendmail -bv user@lotusnotes (servername)
This should give you result as deliverable
then try sendmail -v user@lotusnotes
this should send mail to user.
Also try nslookup to lotus notes server name
nslookup hostname
See if it gets resolved.

Goodluck.

-USA..

[Cecilio Peral]

Thanks Steve.

The port 25 was disabled on the Notes server.

Now everithing goes OK.

[Luis_131]

Hi Cecilio,

I almost have the same problem you had, but on the other way. I have an ISA server 2000 on a HP Proliant DL 360 and Lotus Notes on a HP Proliant ML350 and when I telnet to the port 25 from my ISA server to my Lotus server port I can see this port perfectly, but when I telnet from my Lotus Notes to the ISA server port 25 I receive an error saying: Unable to connect to port 25.
Can you please help me with this?.