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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Sendmail external email delays and mailertables problems on Solaris Post 302794673 by LittleLebowski on Tuesday 16th of April 2013 01:43:27 PM
Old 04-16-2013
Sendmail external email delays and mailertables problems on Solaris
Setup is a Solaris 11 zone running sendmail as a relay to our actual mailservers. All emails to external domains seem to be being tried to be sent directly from this Solaris 11 zone which cannot send mail externally.

All emails sent to our pager addresses as defined in the /etc/mail/aliases file (blackberry.net and att.net) are on a 6 minute delay.

Mailertables should fix this by specifying which smtp server to use for specified domains so I created that file, pointing our 2 pager domains to our organizational mailservers. I tried to enable mailertables via the below methods and it just didn't work. Is there known good way to enable mailertables on Solaris? Any ideas on how to fix these delays?


- create /etc/mail/mailertable with att.net and blackberr.net entries (pager domains to date).
Run makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable


Building the new sendmail.cf

1. Edit /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/sendmail.mc and add line
FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T /etc/mail/access’) FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable’)

NOTE: some online notes state that the "hash" option may not work on Solaris but others do. Will try with
above syntax first.

2. Compile sendmail. m4 /etc/mail/cf/cf/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

3. sdiff new sendmail.cf with timestamped one from today and edit accordingly.

4. Restart Sendmail, tail log, run svcs -xv sendmail, check for errors.

5. Send test emails to internal and external (pager) domains.

---------- Post updated at 01:43 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:26 PM ----------

Also tried smart hosts to no avail. I would appreciate advice on that approach as well.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

calibre-smtp

CALIBRE-SMTP(1) 						      calibre							   CALIBRE-SMTP(1)

NAME

       calibre-smtp - part of calibre

SYNOPSIS

       calibre-smtp  [options] [from to text]

DESCRIPTION

       Send  mail using the SMTP protocol. calibre-smtp has two modes of operation. In the compose mode you specify from to and text and these are
       used to build and send an email message. In the filter mode, calibre-smtp reads a complete email message from STDIN and sends it.

       text is the body of the email message.  If text is not specified, a complete email message is read from STDIN.  from is the  email  address
       of the sender and to is the email address of the recipient. When a complete email is read from STDIN, from and to are only used in the SMTP
       negotiation, the message headers are not modified.

       Whenever you pass arguments to calibre-smtp that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -l, --localhost
	      Host name of localhost. Used when connecting to SMTP server.

       -o, --outbox
	      Path to maildir folder to store failed email messages in.

       -f, --fork
	      Fork and deliver message in background. If you use this option, you should also use --outbox to handle delivery failures.

       -t, --timeout
	      Timeout for connection

       -v, --verbose
	      Be more verbose

   COMPOSE MAIL
       Options to compose an email. Ignored if text is not specified

       -a, --attachment
	      File to attach to the email

       -s, --subject
	      Subject of the email

   SMTP RELAY
       Options to use an SMTP relay server to send mail. calibre will try to send the email directly unless --relay is specified.

       -r, --relay
	      An SMTP relay server to use to send mail.

       --port Port to connect to on relay server. Default is to use 465 if encryption method is SSL and 25 otherwise.

       -u, --username
	      Username for relay

       -p, --password
	      Password for relay

       -e, --encryption-method
	      Encryption method to use when connecting to relay. Choices are TLS, SSL and NONE. Default is TLS. WARNING: Choosing NONE	is  highly
	      insecure

SEE ALSO

       The User Manual is available at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com

       Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>

calibre-smtp (calibre 0.8.51)					   January 2013 						   CALIBRE-SMTP(1)
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