Two mail questions

[bcre3306]

The first one I know has a ton a posts but I still can't get it to work. I'm trying to get my AIX box to be able to send mail to my exchange 5.5 account. Here's the details.
I can ping my exchange box by name
I tried editing my sendmail.cf file according to previous post but no luck.
Let's call my exchange box "exch", my AIX box called "unix", and my exchange mail account "mailer@tester.com"


Second problem:

I am writing a shell script to do something but the only problem I'm having it having the script send me mail if something goes wrong in the mail. I entered in mail -s "problem" root but it just hangs at that. I can I make it finish the message and send it.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Brian

 

[Yegolev]

I think mail is waiting on input. Tried redirecting a file into it? I think it is something like `mail -s subject root < msgfile` but you can also use a pipe if I remember correctly: `ls | mail -s subject root`. Check Ye Olde Man Page.

 

[bcre3306]

That fixed the second problem! Thanks alot. Any idea on the first one?
Brian

 

[Yegolev]

Ah, no. The sheer size of the sendmail book scared me away. Sorry! If I had to guess, I'd say Exchange is wrong.