set up of Sendmail on SCO unix

[gogr]

I have spend the entire evening at this . its driving me mad.

Basically I want to get sco email out the results of backup scripts to my notes account .

ip address of our smtp server is 10.9.100.4
ip address of our sco server 10.99.0.41


I have the necessary routing set up . it works as I can ping the smtp server .

# netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
10.9.100 10.99.0.1 UGS 0 13 net1
10.99 10.99.0.41 UC 1 0 net1
10.99 10.99.0.1 UGS 0 0 net1
10.99.0.41 127.0.0.1 UGHS 4 376 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 230079 lo0
# ifconfig -a
net1: flags=4043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.99.0.41 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.99.255.255
perf. params: recv size: 24576; send size: 24576; full-size frames: 1
ether 00:04:76:dd:cc:11
lo0: flags=4049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 7f000000
perf. params: recv size: 57344; send size: 57344; full-size frames: 1
atl0: flags=404a<BROADCAST,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 7f000000
perf. params: recv size: 4096; send size: 8192; full-size frames: 1
#



I go into SCOADMIN
Sendmail configuration


Sendmail configuration information...

Machine name: landp.fprov.ie
DOMAIN name: fprov.ie
UUCP connections: sosco scolon
Alternate names: NOT SET
Connect to uunet via UUCP? n
Is there a UUCP gateway on the net? n
Is there a smart mailhost on the net? [10.9.100.4]
Use NIS aliases with sendmail? n
Gateway for non-local X.400 mail? NOT SET
Aliases for X.400 gateway? NOT SET
Is this host on the Internet? n


I see from reading other threads that /etc/resolv/conf should read

# cd /etc
# pg resolv.conf
nameserver [10.9.100.4] in my case


I have tried it with the name server as ff_smtp01 also . no joy .



i have refreshed the sendmail as well .


so assuming everything is OK I try using mail .

mail -s "test " helpme@gmail.com </tmp/df.txt

It gives no errors but nothing happens .


Can anyone help and advise where i am going wrong .

Thanks

Gerry O'Grady

 

[gogr]

also

on the /usr/lib/sendmail.cf the DS macro states

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS[10.9.100.4]

CP.


Thanks

 

[motoslide]

You might want to check out this product before spending too much energy on your sendmail configuration. If you only need to output system messages, you don't really need a fully functional sendmail environment. This utility uses a Perl script, and only needs the IP address of the upstream mail server (in your case, the NOTES server).

http://www.synergetic-data.com/main.cgi/mailcall

We use that product to dispatch Invoices, Quotes, Purchase Orders, etc. from an accounting package. I receive no gain from this recommendation, I just post this as an alternative which works well for us.

 

[gogr]

Thanks .

I dont really want to be installing anything else on the box. I'm sure that the config of the sendmail is nearly there... something small/stupid wrong

 

[cdlvj]

On sendmail.org there is a section on testing. You set a high level log and essentially telnet on port 25, which may give you some clues.