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Old 07-31-2011
mailx Vs sendmail to send internal emails to exchange
Hi Gurus,

I have been searching for this around, but sendmail seems complicated and not sure if "mail" command would do, since all what I need to send internal emails from my solaris 10 box to our exchange server. Would the mailx or mail command do ?

I tried the :

# mailx -s test address@domain.com < textfile

got the below output :



HTML Code:
Aug  1 12:20:00 pgdwh000 sendmail[1774]: [ID 801593 mail.info] p712K0aa001774: from=sys, size=291, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201108010220.p712K0aa001774@pgdwh000.digi.com>, relay=sys@localhost
Aug  1 12:20:00 pgdwh000 sendmail[1774]: [ID 801593 mail.info] p712K0aa001774: to=sys, ctladdr=sys (3/3), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30291, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Aug  1 12:20:31 pgdwh000 sendmail[1788]: [ID 801593 mail.info] p712KVsJ001788: from=root, size=296, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201108010220.p712KVsJ001788@pgdwh000.digi.com>, relay=root@localhost
Aug  1 12:20:31 pgdwh000 sendmail[1788]: [ID 801593 mail.info] p712KVsJ001788: to=aladdin.abdulhalim@digi.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30296, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Any help or tips on this or where to start looking would be highly appreciated.

All the best
Al
# 2  
Old 07-31-2011
mail/mailx is a MUA - mail user agent
sendmail is a MTA - mail transfer agent

is the sendmail daemon running on your system?
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aladdin
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Old 07-31-2011
Thank You very much frank_rizzo.

you spot the light on what was missing.
I had to specify the mailhost in /etc/hosts
and to start the sendmail service, it is working now on mailx.
However will keep working to get the sendmail working as well, once done will post here the simple how to steps.


Regards
Al
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