I got 3 server with sendmail for AIX 5.1L to send to Exchange. 2 servers working fine. For some reason, it will only sendmail if your root user. I've checked the security groups/files for /etc/mail folder and /usr/var/spool. The correct user rights match my other 2 servers. What could be stopping it when it used to work back in Aug.2004.?
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why sendmail only works for root user?
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Hi Mike, I don't get any errors. When trying to execute the mail command with any other user other than root, it just doesn't create the mail files in /var/spool/mqueue. The user rights for each directory are rwx all across (777), so I'm thinking its not a user group security issue. This used to work, but now it doesn't. Is there a way to turn on debugging?
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using the command "mail -s "subject" email_address" or I can use "mailx -s "subject" email_address < text.txt"
How do I check if its a daemon process? I think it is, since if I grep for mail, the pid matches the same pid in /etc/mail/sendmail.pid
I'm using these command to start the sendmail process which is working on my other 2 servers:
stopsrc -s sendmail
chssys -s sendmail -f 9 -n 15 -S -a "-bD"
startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"
lssrc -s sendmail
How do I check if its a daemon process? I think it is, since if I grep for mail, the pid matches the same pid in /etc/mail/sendmail.pid
I'm using these command to start the sendmail process which is working on my other 2 servers:
stopsrc -s sendmail
chssys -s sendmail -f 9 -n 15 -S -a "-bD"
startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"
lssrc -s sendmail
Looks like it is yes, if the PID matches contents of that file.
You should have a -dX option for sendmail, where X is a debugging level (set it to 1 initiall)
There should also be a maillog file - I don't have an AiX system to hand at the moment but try /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
Try using sendmail directly
/usr/sbin/sendmail -d1 root < file_with_email_text_in_it
Also - compare the sendmail config with a working machine. (the sendmail.cf file)
Mike
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You should have a -dX option for sendmail, where X is a debugging level (set it to 1 initiall)
There should also be a maillog file - I don't have an AiX system to hand at the moment but try /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
Try using sendmail directly
/usr/sbin/sendmail -d1 root < file_with_email_text_in_it
Also - compare the sendmail config with a working machine. (the sendmail.cf file)
Mike
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My apologies - I didn't make myself clear.
Run that command as a non-root user - it will send mail to root.
The -d1 specifies a debugging level. Have a look at 'man sendmail' for some details.
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Run that command as a non-root user - it will send mail to root.
The -d1 specifies a debugging level. Have a look at 'man sendmail' for some details.
Mike
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Mike, ran that command both as non-root and root, didn't do anything. Do you know the debug for mail versus sendmail command? the -d1 doesn't work with mail command.
if I do this as root it works fine.
mail -s "subject" email@hotmail.com < file.txt
this will send it to an external mail account. It also works for our internal email accounts. But only as root user.
if I do this as root it works fine.
mail -s "subject" email@hotmail.com < file.txt
this will send it to an external mail account. It also works for our internal email accounts. But only as root user.
*Has* to be a permissions problem bagetta - which I know isn't a particularly helpful comment.
When you say that the user rights match your other two servers which files and directories did you check?
I'm off home now - I'll check back in a couple of hours.
Mike
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When you say that the user rights match your other two servers which files and directories did you check?
I'm off home now - I'll check back in a couple of hours.
Mike
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