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10-23-2001

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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..

petrosi

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mail(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  mail(1B)

NAME

       mail, Mail - interactive message processing system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/mail ...

       /usr/ucb/Mail ...

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/ucb/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail are provided as links to /usr/bin/mailx. See mailx(1) for more information on the usage of these commands.

ATTRIBUTES

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

   /usr/ucb/mail
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

   /usr/ucb/Mail
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailx(1),attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    19 Aug 1998 							  mail(1B)