MailX Question

[beaster]

I have a Sun box that is set up on our network fine. I try to send an email using mailx

mailx user@domain.com
Subject: Test
Test Test
.
EOT

But the mail neve goes through. Is there someplace I should be checking to see why it does not?

Or does the domain I am sending to need to be configured someplace on the box?

Thanks!

 

[iribach]

don't confound mailx and sendmail
mailx -s "subject" user@domeain < texfile
or
cat textfile | mailx -s "subject" user@domeain

 

[beaster]

I have tried that as well, since it is my preference but it does not go through either.

mailx -s "subject" user@domeain < texfile

Is there a log file I can look at to see what is happening?

 

[Mike042]

Hi beaster,

Check your syslog configuration file /etc/syslog.conf for the location of "mail.debug". By default it is /var/log/syslog .

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[beaster]

Now I see what is going on. Any ideas?

Aug 5 12:27:17 vaossws03 sendmail[13121]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i7153MZ04572: to=user@domain.com, ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=4+05:23:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=37358000, relay=mailhost.oss1, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mailhost.oss1

 

[daFranze]

by default sendmail connects DNS to resolve the Mailexchanger for your domain -> set this to your MX correctly

the host sendmail found right now is mailhost.oss1 which does not accept mails from this client
run

telnet mailhost.oss1 25
helo [i]your hostname[/i]
mail from: [i]president@whitehouse.gov[/i] ;)
rcpt to: [i]you@yourdomain.com[/i]
data
Sunject: test
huhu!
.

If this works sendmail can deliver mails and the userclient mailx, mail, dtmail, ... will work, too

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years