Steps to follow to use vt220 terminals as clients of mail server

[Nagarathinam]

Dear Experts,
I have a HP-9000 server with HP-UX 11.00 being connected with about 100 numbers of vt220 termainals used as clients.
I also have redhat9 on intel server which is configured to use as mailserver. I am able to connect windows clients through ' outlook' with mail server for intranet mailing.
Now I want my vt220 terminals to act as clients for redhat9 mail server.
Can anybody list the steps and commands to do on HP-UX to use vt220 as mail clients.

thanks in advance

A.Naga

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

I'm not sure about your request. A way to set your HP-UX like as a "gateway" mail server is configuring the "Smart relay host" feature defined in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. For this you must be set DS variable:
DS

Where must be reachable from HP-UX server. You can define this alias into /etc/file, and test it by ping command.

Then restart the sendmail service:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

To try send an email from your HP-UX server to any valid domain address, i.e:
#echo "Hi, this is a test"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -v @

Where "-v" option is the verbose option and allow you make a sending debug.

Any undeliveriable email will store into dead letter file.

Rgds.

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
First of all let me tell you that you don't have to do anything on HP-Unix.
I can suggest only suggest some tips for using mail on vt220.
You can just telnet,use a user's login to get into the mail server,and use the mail (or mailx) command and then use the functions keys ( don't know which are those in vt220) to read,delete,forward the mails etc.., OR use the mail functions which is vailable in mail itself( e.g. delete,forward,wrtie etc.. see man mail or mailx for more details) if function keys N.A.

This will be somewhat difficult for a normal user but i think by practice it wil be OK as you have a lot of vt220 terminals.
Since these are dumb terminals it has nothing to do with the O.S. you are telnetting.

Regards,

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi again,

In fact, VT's are dumb devices, the smart component always be your HP-UX server. Users connected through the server (telnet sessions) just could use the server's services.

My previous answer try to explain how to use a server's service.

Rgds.