smtp mail relay

[vskumar]

Experts,
I have a HP server from which I want to send the out going mails(SMTP mails) to the SMTP server which is Exchange server(Microsoft.
)
I edited the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file and did a ^DS and in front of it I gave the fully qualified name of the exchange server. I stopped and started the sendmail daemon by

#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

But still my mails dont go through they are still there when I do a "mailq" do I need to do some thing on the Exchange server?

Thnks in advance

VSK

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

Did you specify the DS entry like this?
DS.

eg: DSxyz.abc.com

To test whether the mail is going to the relay do
#sendmail -vt maild
test mail
. <- (just the dot!)

and check the output. It will show how the mail is being sent.

If it does not work, pls post the output of
the above command.

HTH
raj

[Wim Rombauts]

Yes, you have to configure some things on the exchange server. What exactly you have to configure, depends on the current settings of the exchange server.

I will try to explain most of it (using Exchange 5.5) :
First of all, be sure that your server is found in the DNS configuration.
In the MS Exchange Admin application, find your (sub)site. Under "configuration" you will find an entry "connections".
If you click on "connections" you will get a list of connections on the right side of the window. Doubleclick on the "Inernet Mail Service".
Under tab "Delivery Restrictions", be sure the Exchange server accepts connections from your server.
Under tab "Address Space", you need to add an SMTP type connection to "*@
Under tab "Routing", you should tell Exchange to route mail to server to . Both names are normally the same.
Abd last : tab "Internet Mail" : Configure how mail should be forwarded (MIME, HTML, character set, ...)

For Exchange 2000, this will probably be a little different, but I hope this helps. Don't forget to use the help button regularly so that you know what you're doing.

[ShivKumar_1]

This is in response to Raj, I tried running the command and here is the out put


WARNING: local host name (mantis1) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
maild... User unknown
.... User unknown

Do I go and modify it in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cw?

[Wim Rombauts]

It seems that your HP server is not configured to use DNS and has no fully qualified hostname server.domain.com. For my HP server, I entered a fully qualified hostname as an alias in /etc/hosts. Also be sure the /etc/resolv.conf is configured and that other systems can find your HP Server through DNS.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Enter the fully qualified domain name in /etc/hosts (i.e with the domain you specified in your /etc/resolv.conf) or modify your Dj macro in sendmail.cf to include your fully qualified domain name to get rid of this problem.

-Sri

[Roger Baptiste]

Hi,

In the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
file, specify the domain name
Look for an entry like this in file:
#Dj$w.Foo.COM
and replace it with
Dj

Also, in the sendmail test command , you need to specify
an actual mailid!

HTH
raj

[Sanjay_6]

Hi VSK,

Take a look at these threads,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1eafea6a0f7784ed23/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000045145919

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1eafea6a0f7784ed23/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000043254746

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Apart from this ceck your DNS (/etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf file)
In resolv.conf gile you should have doman name, search order and name server entries. Check MX entries in DNS server for mail service. Also check with sendmail -bv with a proper e-mail id and see what result it gives.
What error you get exactly??

-USA..

[ShivKumar_1]

When I did a sendmail -vt vskumar@cw.com it gives the following errors.

vskumar@cw.com... cw.com: Name server timeout
Transient parse error --

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[Sanjay_6]

Hi VSK,

Try this thread,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=2ae6fd270d14f908c4/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000040618554

Hope this helps.

Regds

[twang]

I made as follows:
- edit /etchosts:
129.9.200.2 .wmo.com

- edit /etc/sendmail.cf:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS.wmo.com

- restart sendmail deamon

it works fine.

try this

[Ishmael Vestas Lesolame]

Hi

In addition to what Twang said, ensure that you can ping the mail server & Vice Versa . Make sure that the /etc/nsswitch.conf file has this entry if you are using the host table.

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] nis

Restart inetd & sendmail.

hope it helps,

ish

[ShivKumar_1]

Experts,
Thanks for your help the problem is solved. What I did was I removed the /etc/resolv.conf to another location , because I dont use DNS , it was first looking up at that file.
Also in /etc/mail there is a file called service.switch remove the word dns in the default fall back line.