I've recently migrated a Solaris 10 server, to Redhat. I've migrated all my crons & scripts and now I'm attempting to set all the aliases, to send to the appropriate accounts. I have a particular user defined in /etc/aliases, however, when a particular script is ran in cron, I do not receive any emails. Here's an example of a script that runs, that does send an email appropriately, on the old box.
Any insight as to why I'm not receiving emails for this, is appreciated. Sendmail is working and I do receive root crons. To add, all of these crons run under the root crontab. Thanks!
I'm trying to make a script that will automatically read incoming mail, parse the recipient, then send a file off to the recipient.
(Name of file = mail.pl)
#!/usr/bin/perl
$mailDir = "/var/spool/mail/"
$user = print `cat <STDIN> | grep To: | cut -b5-`;
print `elm -s Awaiting Mail $user <... (1 Reply)
I've searched this message board, and the newgroups THOROUGHLY, in search of any information towards implenting the MySQL API with C... I'm a "beginner" to the C language I suppose, and i've made a few functions in C that can be implemented into the source code of Sendmail/mail.local, so that any... (2 Replies)
Running sendmail Version 8.12.10+Sun on Solaris 9.
I need to send mail from this server (serverA) to the mail server (Mserver), which will relay the message to the correct user. If I specify the user specifically, as in:
mailx -s"test" John.Doe@company.com
test
.
It works perfectly and... (13 Replies)
Hi All
• Regarding installing sendmail pkg in server, I tried to install the pkg but getting the below errors as shown below - any idea on this?
• But I have successfully installed sendmail-cf pkg in the server box
• But that is not sufficient we also need to install sendmail pkg
• Help is... (2 Replies)
I have searched this forum extensively and can't seem to find a workable solution to my sendmail issue, but that could be down to my own lack of knowledge so please bear with me...
I am using a Sun Solaris 9 box to try and send e-mail to external addresses. The Unix box is not an e-mail server.... (9 Replies)
I have been working on setting up a mail relay. I have just about everything working except for the procmail part. The configuration is as follows:
Internet -> mailrelay -> mail server
|
spamassassin server
I have spamassassin running on a seperate... (3 Replies)
well, I came in today to a raft of messages that users couldn't email from UNIX (HP-UX B.11.23 U i64)
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf was missing - just GONE from the directory. Other files were there.
mail was successfully sent at 19:48 last night and unsuccessful at 00:10. At least those are times... (5 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first thread.
Iam trying the following:
OS: Sun
Database: DB2, Informix, Oracle
* Get the status of the database (using database command line options)
* pipe to a text file
* send mail of the text file to receiptents.
TODO1:
First step i tried to send a test message.... (3 Replies)
For a project that I have been assigned to, I need to send emails to a business partner (business_partner.com) from one production server. However, my emails neither reach their destination nor bounce back to me.
Working with our business partner's IT support, the following error was discovered... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Not been around in a while. However I have been all over tinternet (google) for days looking for a solution.
Where I work has decided to use Sendmail on our Linux and Unix estate for sending emails via scripts. So I am hoping to eventually get a working solution for Sendmail and not... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dakelly
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aliases
aliases(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual aliases(4)NAME
aliases - Contains alias definitions for the sendmail program
SYNOPSIS
/var/adm/sendmail/aliases
DESCRIPTION
By default, the aliases file contains the required aliases for the sendmail program. Do not delete these defaults because they are needed
by the system. This file describes user ID aliases used by the sendmail command. It is formatted as a series of lines in the form: name:
name_1, name_2, name_3,..
The name is the name that needs an alias, and the name_n are the aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are continuation
lines. Lines beginning with a # (number sign) are comments.
You can define an alias only on local names. Duplicate addresses are removed and no message is sent to any person more than once. For
example, if name_1 defines an alias that is name_2 and name_2 defines an alias that is name_1, sendmail does not send the same message back
and forth. Local and valid recipients who have a .forward file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the list of users
defined in that file.
This is only the raw data file; the actual information that defines the aliases is placed into a binary format in the files /var/adm/send-
mail/aliases.dir and /var/adm/sendmail/aliases.pag using the newaliases command. For the change to take effect, the newaliases command
must be executed each time the aliases file is changed.
The sendmail program also supports sending messages to programs or appending a message to a file. See the sendmail(8) reference page for
further information.
Special Aliases
Directs error messages that occur when sending to aliasname back to address.
RESTRICTIONS
Aliases for sendmail use the dbm(3) database format for faster lookups. A single alias cannot exceed 1,000 characters. To work around this
restriction, you can chain together aliases. For example: alias-list: ali1, ali2, ali3 ali1: name 1, name 2 ... ali2: name n, name n + 1
FILES
Binary aliases file. Binary aliases file.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: newaliases(1), forward(4), local.users(4), sendmail(8) delim off
aliases(4)