10-23-2001
Mail services not working
Hello, all.
We currently have three UNIX boxes run Reliant Unix, a System V Release 4
variant. Mail can't be sent out of one of the boxes to anywhere outside the box.
For a client we use the mail command. I am not sure how to determine the message transfer daemon that is running.
When mail is sent to a user off the box, the message appears to have been sent but it never arrives.
I checked and compared the following files to the systems that are working and they are identical.
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/mail/mailcnfg
DNS is not running on any of the UNIX boxes but on an NT server.
Any ideas what to look for ? ANything else that I should be checking?
Thanks for any help..
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NAME
testmxlookup - Look up mail relays for a domain
SYNOPSIS
testmxlookup [@ip-address] [--dnssec] [--udpsize n] {domain}
DESCRIPTION
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DIAGNOSTICS
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OPTIONS
@ip-address
Specify the DNS server's IP address, where to send the DNS query to, overriding the default DNS server addresses read from
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--dnssec
Enable the DNSSEC extension. If the DNS server has DNSSEC enabled, and the specified domain's DNS records are signed, the list of IP
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Specify that n is the largest UDP packet size that the DNS server may send. This option is only valid together with "--dnssec". If
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SEE ALSO
courier(8)[1], RFC 1035[2].
AUTHOR
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Author
NOTES
1. courier(8)
[set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/courier.html
2. RFC 1035
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
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