sendmail HP-UX 10.2

[Kurt Beyers.]

When I try to start sendmail (/etc/init.d/sendmail start), nothing happens. The sendmail daemon is not running and no entries can be found in/var/adm/syslog/*

When i try to send an email (e.g sendmail -v root), I get the message:

No local mailer defined

What is causing this? I haven't had this problem yet (on HP-UX 11), which entry in the sendmail.cf must I change and to what. All I want to do is forward all mail (local and non-local) to the Exchange mail server.

Thanks,
Kurt

[Victor BERRIDGE]

hi,
You should add the name of your exchange server at the line:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS


Good luck
Victor

[Printaporn_1]

export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1

does it set to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Sorry I got mixed up with the rodent ...
I wanted to add:
You will have to add a .mailrc file
in your home directory containing:
set crt=21
set encoding=8bit
set charset=iso-8859-1

To avoid MS-... error

Good luck
Victor

[Kurt Beyers.]

Thanx but the DS record and mailservs settings were already applied. The sendmail just refuses to start up. When I do a:

ps -ef | grep sendmail

I find that no sendmail daemon is running.Why won't it start up?

[Victor BERRIDGE]

When you execute /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop then
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

What get displayed?

[Kurt Beyers.]

It says:
No sendmail server is running :-(

[Victor BERRIDGE]

well my fault, I meant stop then start...

This time?

[Kurt Beyers.]

Of course I've started it afterwards. However no sendmail daemon is running.

On HPUX11, you get something like sendmail accepting connections. I guess it should be the same on HPUX10.2

[Victor BERRIDGE]

# ./sendmail start
/etc/mail/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 76 bytes total
sendmail

sbin/init.d # ps -ef|grep sendmail
root 22431 1 0 13:15:44 ? 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
root 22537 21016 0 13:16:04 pts/1 0:00 grep sendmail

sbin/init.d # ./sendmail stop
Sendmail pid is 22431
Killing sendmail...
Sendmail killed.

I will at the priv on the exec files and give them to you (I just tested on a K production machine, hope no one was in need on mail...)

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Here are the perms of /usr/sbin/sendmail:
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root mail 393216 Feb 12 1998 sendmail

[W. Sikkens]

Hello, you could try building a new sendmail.cf file with /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf/gen_cf or just copy the generic-hpux10.cf file to sendmail.cf. Maybe you are missing something like:
##### @(#)local.m4 8.30 (Berkeley) 6/30/1998 #####
Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/rmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qm9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=rmail -d $u
Mprog, P=/usr/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
T=X-Unix,
A=sh -c $u
in your active sendmail.cf file.

[Kurt Beyers.]

I've solved it. Sendmail wouldn't start because there was a file in /etc/rc.config.d/ that shouldn't be there at all. After deleting this file, sendmail started up normal. Than I still had some problem with name resolution, but I managed to let sendmail use only the hosts file (and no DNS) for relaying the mail to the Exchange Server.

Thanks for all your contributions.

Kurt

[Shannon Petry]

Boy, oh boy, this is the second time I have seen people say to modify the sendmail.cf file to relay mail to another server.

Simply edit /etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs

There are only two variables that can be changed in that file.
1. Run sendmail 0=false, 1=true
2. Mail host to forward mail to

After you put the mail host into the file, stop and start sendmail with the /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

DONE!

Regards,
Shannon