UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,

I want to mail from Unix 4.3 (on an RS/6000) to my Microsoft exchange server (5.5).

When I trie : mail -v erikr@domain.nl < /directory/file

I get the following error:

^Cserverone:/etc >WARNING: The local host name (serverone) does not have a domain; fix$jnconfig
erikr@domain.nl... domain.nl: Name server timeout
erikr@domain.nl... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
erikr@domain.nl... queued

Also tried to search on this page but can't find anything like my problem.

Can anyone help me?

Erik

Eric,

It seems that DNS is not running because you are getting name server errors. Just for good measure I would stop and start named and also restart Sendmail as well.

As for the mail syntax.

Here is one very similar to yours. I would use mailx with the options in this link.

https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s...ighlight=mailx

Thanks,

But i just can't seem to find where to start DNS

Erik

When you do not use DNS, you can add the full hostname to the /etc/host tabel

like:
12.23.34.25 serverone.yourdomain.nl


in this case the mail system can resolve the IP adres.

BUT iam not sure this is a DNS problem, to me it sounds like a sendmail problem.

I inserted the following line in the /etc/hosts file,

192.168.8.9 serverone.domain.nl

When i use this command:

mailx -s TEST erikr@domain.nl < /tmp/erik

Unix doesn't return an error and the mail won't arrive.

I've already restarted the sendmail subsystem. That won't work either. When i use the mail -v command i get the same errors mentioned before.

Any suggestions??

Hope to hear,

Erik

Sorry I think you need a sendmail guru, iam not

there is a sendmail site. I am not sure of the address. You may need to do a google search for it. something like www.sendmail.org