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Operating Systems BSD Mail not working and probably never has Post 302510604 by DanJSC on Monday 4th of April 2011 12:20:43 PM
Old 04-04-2011
Mail not working and probably never has
Hi hopefully I am in the right forum

I am trying to get mail working on a 15 year old server which has probably never been configured to work before

The server is on a network with TCP installed and the different servers on this network can all see each other with ping and rsh

when I try this
Code:
# mailx -s "testzzz" "root@sys1"
test testz
EOT
# UX:mail: ERROR: Can't send to !cro_isp1!root (root@sys1)
UX:mail: ERROR: Return to root

the email error returned is this
Code:
From postmaster Fri Mar 25 10:16 GMT 2011
To: root@sys2
Date: Fri Mar 25 10:16:12 GMT 2011
Original-Date:  Fri Mar 25 10:16 GMT 2011
Original-Subject: testzzz
Not-Delivered-To: due to 11  Transfer Failure
     ORIGINAL MESSAGE ATTACHED
     (mail: Error # 22 'Surrogate command failed', rc = 11)
En-Route-To: !sys1!root
     ======= Surrogate command =======
     :/usr/bin/uux -aroot - sys1!rmail (root)
     ==== Start of stdout ===
     ==== Start of stderr ===
     :bad system name: sys1
     :uux failed ( 11 )
En-Route-To: !sys1!root
Content-Length: 122

If I do dthe same command from the local system but include the system name
Code:
mailx -s "testzzz" "tst@sys2"
tteesstt zz1017
EOT

This works

I am pretty sure mail to other systems has never worked on these boxes but would like to get it workling to set up some mail alerts

I have also tried sendmail but it does not seem to recognise that I am requesting mail to be sent to a different server and just sends it to the same user on the local server

There is not etc aliases file on these systems but the remote sytem is in the hosts file
This is the unix system detail if it helps
Code:
Welcome to the NCR MP-RAS SVR4 UNIX System
UNIX System V Release 4.0 
uname -a
sys2 sys2 4.0 3.0 3487/3488 Pentium III(TM)-ISA/PCI

Thanks in advance for any help

Dan
Last edited by Scott; 04-04-2011 at 02:57 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

mconnect

mconnect(1)							   User Commands						       mconnect(1)

NAME

       mconnect - connect to SMTP mail server socket

SYNOPSIS

       mconnect [-p port] [-r] [hostname]

DESCRIPTION

       The  mconnect utility opens a connection to the mail server on a given host, so that it can be tested independently of all other mail soft-
       ware. If no host is given, the connection is made to the local host. Servers expect to speak the Simple Mail Transfer  Protocol	(SMTP)	on
       this connection. Exit by typing the quit command. Typing EOF sends an end of file to the server. An interrupt closes the connection immedi-
       ately and exits.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -pport	 Specify the port number instead of the default SMTP port (number 25) as the next argument.

       -r	 Raw mode: disable the default line buffering and input handling. This produces an effect similar to  telnet(1) to port number 25.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       hostname    The name of a given host.

USAGE

       The mconnect command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.hf	Help file for SMTP commands

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       telnet(1), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), ip6(7P)

       Postel, Jonathan B., RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol,  Information Sciences Institute, University  of  Southern  California,  August
       1982.

SunOS 5.11							    28 Jan 2008 						       mconnect(1)
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