I have an Solaris 8 machine running a managment application. One of the features of this application is to configure alarm forwarding to an email undress.

When i configured the application to do that, it asked me only about the recipient email address.

Quesiton: how to configure my Solaris 8 machine to send emails.
i added a default gateway, and i don't have a DNS server.
i can ping the mail server.

Waiting for your urgent answer.

Set your sendmail to send mail to the mail server. Look in /etc/mail/ for sendmail.cf - save a copy of it - edit it and look for Smart relay host. Put your mailserver host/domain in as the relay.

Example:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmymailserver.mydomain.com

Test that Sendmail is 'happy' with everything:
$ /usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null

This command will give you output of the sendmail config - if you aren't running DNS, you have a major problem since sendmail works with DNS to insure a your server doesn't become a illegal mail relay. See the Sendmail FAQ for trying to set up sendmail without DNS.

i tried it and this is the result....

root@inc1 # $ /usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null
$: not found
root@inc1 # /usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null
Version 8.11.6+Sun
Compiled with: LDAPMAP MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS NISPLUS
QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB XDEBUG

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = inc1
(canonical domain name) $j = inc1.
(subdomain name) $m = <null>
(node name) $k = inc1
========================================================

ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> root@inc1 #


do you think it will not work if i don't have a domain name or if i am not configured with a DNS?????

You need to read the FAQ on sendmail's site - link was provided in other post.

hi again;

is there a special format i should put my hostname in my /etc/hosts??

thanks

This is really confusing:

in /etc/hosts i added.

<IP> myhost myhost.domainname
<IP> mailserver mailhost mailserver.anotherdomainname

i can ping the mail server and telnet to port 25 and send an email from there.

i changed the configuration of sendmail.cf as described above by our freind RTM.

i am trying to send mail like this:
mail from root@inc1
to: name@anotherdomainname
this is a test mail
.

but still the mail is not received.!!!!

What happens to the mail? Check /var/adm/messages (or check your /etc/syslog.conf for where email errors are logged to - look for mail) for the errors if any.

% grep mail /etc/syslog.conf
daemon.none,cron.info,user.info,mail.none /var/logs/messages
kern.info,cron.info,auth.info,mail.none /var/logs/syslog
mail.info /var/logs/maillog

In this example, you would look for the messages in /var/logs/maillog - messages will look something like this:


Feb 21 09:50:43 console2 sendmail[12716]: j1LEodnO012713: to=<john.smith@mydomain.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120356, relay=p00.mydomain.com. [172.16.1.35], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok.)
Feb 21 09:50:43 console2 sendmail[12718]: j1LEodnO012714: to=<john.doe@mydomain.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120358, relay=p00.mydomain.com. [172.16.1.35], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok.)


Also, check to see if mail is still waiting to go out - use the mailq command - it may show why the email has not gone.