Email Basics

[andyjm2uk]

All I want to do is send email through my networks local SMTP server, which is a W2K machine, from my IBM AIX machine. I do not need to receive email.

What is the easiest way of doing this?


Thanks in advance


Andy

 

[RodKnowlton]

The Perl module Mail::Sender is pretty easy to use.



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

[Einstein47]

Is sendmail running on your AIX box? There are a ton of configurations that would allow you to specify your W2Y server as the email server. Then you would only need to use the mail program as the way to send the email.

mail [-s subject] "recepient@address" message goes here

The trick is knowing how to reference your W2K box. I think you need to have it's host information setup in your /etc/hosts file. Can you ping the W2K box? That would be the first step.

Einstein47
("There are no atheists when restoring from backup.&quot

 

[beatleman]

Make this entry in sendmail.cf specifying the name of your W2K server as the relay host.

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
# Relay host to forward outgoing mail not in the local domain to.
# To forward ALL mail to this relay host, uncomment the appropriate
# rule in ruleset 0, as indicated by the ruleset's comments.
#DSmailer:relayhostname

DSesmtp:W2Kserver