/var/mail/ messages

[Jimmy Kong_1]

Want to know what cause this error in VUH202 which is HPUX 10.20 while VPRPC is solaris 5.7 and what is the fix for it?
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----


----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to vprpc.in.abc.com.au.:
>>> RCPT To:
<<< 550 ... Relaying denied
550 ... User unknown

--LAA07913.1132533928/mail.cdn.abc.com.au
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.cdn.abc.com.au
Received-From-MTA: dns; vuh202.in.abc.com.au
Arrival-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:45:27 +1100 (EST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; sms@vprpc.in.abc.com.au
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; vprpc.in.abc.com.au
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 ... Relaying denied
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:45:28 +1100 (EST)

--LAA07913.1132533928/mail.cdn.abc.com.au
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path: oracle@vuh202.in.abc.com.au
Received: from vuh202.in.abc.com.au (vuh202.in.abc.com.au [141.168.43.20
2]) by mail.cdn.abc.com.au (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA07877 for Received: from vuh202.in.abc.com.au (vuh202.in.abc.com.au [141.168.43.20
2]) by mail.cdn.abc.com.au (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA07877 for pc.in.abc.com.au>; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:45:27 +1100 (EST)
Received: (from oracle@localhost) by vuh202.in.abc.com.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041
)/8.7.1) id LAA06027 for sms@vprpc.in.abc.com.au; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:45:25
Received: (from oracle@localhost) by vuh202.in.abc.com.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041
)/8.7.1) id LAA06027 for sms@vprpc.in.abc.com.au; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:45:25
+1100 (EDT)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:45:25 +1100 (EDT)

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi Jimmy,

This is a warning message saying that the mail could not be deliveerd to theuser on the other host.

The file /var/adm/messages and /var/adm/msgbuf contains messages about file system full, mail not being able to deliver...etc

Check to see if the user name exists and the host can be resolved by the DNS

IA

[Robert DJ]

Hi Jimmy,

This seems to be a SMTP resolving problem, check to see whether the Domain is able to resolve and also check ur ports.

Regards,
Robs

[Jimmy Kong_1]

ping and nslookup hostname returned results as expected. The file /var/adm/messages doesn't exist, while /var/adm/msgbuf contains irrelevant messages about file system full from year 2000.
what do you mean by check ur ports?
i noticed /etc/mail/sendmail.cw didn't contain vuh202.in.abc.com.au and I have added that in, do you think this will help?

[Geoff Wild]

It say "Relaying denied" - that means your server is not authorized to send email on behalf of the othe server...


You need to add the ip address of the server to the other ones /etc/mail/access file and remake the hash db file...



vi /etc/mail/access

x.x.x.x relay

where x.x.x.x is the ip address.. tab between....

then...

makemap hash /etc/mail/access
then stop/start sendmail


Rgds...Geoff

[Jimmy Kong_1]

what is the command to stop/start sendmail?
i had to create acccess file in vprpc and did what you said.
when i grepped for sendmail in vuh202:
vuh202:/etc/mail#ps -ef|grep -i sendmail
root 718 1 0 Nov 19 ? 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
on port 2

[Bill Hassell]

You can use sendmail options. but it is easier to rememebr that all kernel processes start from the /sbin/init.d directory. Just use

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

and

/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

[Jimmy Kong_1]

thanks, how can we test this now?

[Indira Aramandla]

You can use mailx (interactive message processing system) to send messages (mail) to the recepient (sms@vprpc.in.abc.com.au) that reported having problem.

usage of mailx is

mailx -s "massage test" e-mail-id

You can also read text form a file into the mail.

Or rescheduole the job that failed and reported the error.


Indira A

[Jimmy Kong_1]

mailx just hung!

[Bill Hassell]

It's not hung. mailx (like many Unix programs) can use data from stdin redirection, but if it is not redirected, mailx is expecting you to type your message. There is no prompt, thus it looks like mailx is not working. Just type a couple of lines of text and then type CTRL-D (which is the termination character) and mailx will send your email message.

[Jimmy Kong_1]

where can i locate the email message on vprpc (destination box)?