Unable to send mail

[b j wicks]

Hi all -
We recently switched to a new mail server on our network. I was told I had to reconfigure my UNIX server to match the newly assigned IP. I've changed the IP in the /etc/hosts, but am still unable to send mail from it. Is there another file where this has to be changed?

Please help.
Regards.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Only if you have specified the IP address of your smart host instead of the hostname in the sendmail configuration file, you don't have to modify anything else. You should restart the sendmail service:

The sendmail configuration file is:

/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf

You should restart your sendmail service anyway.

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

Also, ensure that the mailserver ip address is resolved by hosts, instead of DNS. Maybe your DNS server has old information. Verify your DNS server.

[b j wicks]

That was the solution. Thanks....bj