Cannot send mail from AIX 5.2 to out side

mis1864 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2009

Hi... help me please

Previously, my server could send the email from deamon to out side but now it could not. I tried to use command "mailq -v", it show error as below that "alias database unavailable". Does anyone help me, what should I fix?

******************************************************
daemon
n91MQvb205650 3645 19022424 Oct 2 05:27 MAILER-DAEMON
(alias database unavailable)
postmaster
n91MQvc205650 5187 19023967 Oct 2 05:27 MAILER-DAEMON
(alias database unavailable)
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garethr · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2009

Wild guess:

See if /etc/aliases is missing:

Code:

# ls -l /etc/aliases
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     system           17 05 Jun 2008  /etc/aliases -> /etc/mail/aliases

Also, try running this command with "truss" to see if you can spot any failures:

Code:

$ truss mailq -v

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