Using sendmail

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

Hi all,
Need assistant to use sendmail.

The way I run as below :
# cat sendmail_msg.txt | sendmail -t

Then I issue mailq, it no error and mailq is empty but I don't received the email.
Rgds.
-Kamarul

[BONNAFOUS Jean Marc]

Hi,

I suppose you have started Sendmail daemon with -bd options. For testing you can use -bt options to enter in interactive test-mode. You can also use -V option for Verbose mode or -X LogfileName for logging in and out sendmail traffic (See man page).

So sendmail is usually use only like mail server (sendmail -bd). Instead of sendmail -t, prefer using mail or mailx (or interactive elm interface).

See also:
http://docs.hp.com/fr/5187-2222/ch03s08.html
or
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90776/B2355-90776_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90776/00/00/17-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90776/00/00/17-toc.html&searchterms=sendmail&queryid=20040830-030115

Rgds
JMB

[Muthukumar_5]

Problem may be resolvation of account@FQDN of hostname.

Try to resolve that as,

are you using hosts: entry on /etc/nsswitch.conf as,

hosts: dns files ..

so that,

it will start to resolve domain name over dns as,

/etc/resolv.conf
domain celcom.com.my
nameserver IP1
nameserver IP2

nslookup celcom.com.my
Is it working fine.

or

nsquery hosts celecom.com.my "dns"

If you resolve these then you will get mail now. I have tested in my domain it is working fine. So the problem is because of domain name resolvation.

Regards
Muthu

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Other possible problem: the text file seems a DOS file, containing the CTRL-M characters at the end of the line... Make sure this is not the case on your file, otherwise sendmail will try to lookup the hostname including the CTRL-M

And running the sendmail in address-test mode can help too, of course. Also, check out your local mail file for errors, and /var/adm/syslog/mail.log for messages from sendmail.

[Ron Brown_2]

Try this:

sendmail -v email_address < message.txt

That generally works for me and the -v option allows you to see the mail server in action.

[someone_4]

Hi

what does sendmail_msg.txt look like?

Richard

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

The text file is attached to the original question... That's where I saw the CTRL-M characters, but those can be caused by transferring the file to windows for posting this question, of course.

[Sunil Sharma_1]

What mail.log say? any error there ?

/var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Sunil