mailx question

[ponetguy2]

hello gurus,

I'm trying to send mail from a Solaris 9 box on a Domain.

I used the command below, but no dice.

mailx -s 'test mail from blahserver' meme@domain.com</tmp/mail.log

here is my nslookup output.


# nslookup mailserver.domain.com
Server: dnsserver.domain.com
Address: 10.20.10.60

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mail.domain.com
Address: 10.1.1.24
Aliases: mailserver.domain.com

internal dns: dnsserver.domain.com

I also disabled sendmail. I believe that sendmail is not needed to send
mail, using mailx.

Please help.

 

[kHz]

Sendmail only needs to run to accept incoming mail. Look in /var/spool/mqueue for the message that didn't get delivered. It will have the errors in the message.

 

[SamBones]

Do an [tt]nslookup[/tt] of "[tt]mailhost[/tt]". I believe that's the name that sendmail uses (I believe [tt]mailx[/tt] uses [tt]sendmail[/tt] to actually send the mail (I could be wrong)).

If it's not in DNS, do this. If [tt]10.1.1.24[/tt] is the IP of your mail server, add the following line to your [tt]/etc/hosts[/tt] file...

10.1.1.24      mailhost mailhost.domain.com

 

[coffeysm]

If you do a:

mailx [b]-v[/b] -s 'test mail from blahserver' meme@domain.com</tmp/mail.log

You can see where it is connecting up to.