Sending mail to another AIX system ...

[TSch]

Hi folks,

the answer to this might be easy.
However, I never had to deal with this in the past ...

What I'd like to do is send emails from one AIX system to another one within the LAN.

Something like:

mail -s "Test" root@foreignsystem
mail -s "Test" foreignsystem!root

What does the source/target system need in order for this to be working ?

Best Regards,
Thomas

 

[AIXLogician]

In order to do that you have to verify certain things
1. make sure the sendmail daemon is running/accepting connections at port 25
2. You have to configure inner relay /etc/sendmail.cf go to
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmycompanysmtp.thinkaboutit.com (this is Ex use your relay host FQDN).
3. Restart the sendmail service
refresh -s sendmail
(do this on both hosts)
now send email between hosts and you should be able to receive them
4. To check mails on AIX host just run
mailx


SARFARAZ AHMED SYED,
Sr. Systems Engineer