SUMMARY: Setting up mail on a Solaris Server (Darren Cuddy)

Darren wrote:

 

Message: 6

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:33:08 -0000

From: "Darren Cuddy" <darren.cuddy@serco.com>

Subject: Setting up mail on a Solaris Server

To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>

Message-ID: <003201c61785$1ba8bbd0$3d02230a@altaris.com>

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Dear Sun Managers,

I am trying to set up an automatic mailing of support reports from one of

our servers on a customer site

I have tried but to no avail using sendmail configuration and was wondering

if someone could talk me through this from scratch?

 

Architecture is:

 

A single Solaris server maintained by us

An SMTP gateway maintained by the customer

 

I need to send mail from the server externally to our support teams

I have tried many different iterations of the same thing and just can't get

it to work?

 

SUMMARY:

 

Many replies (along with the flurry of 'out of office' autos) all hinged on
the same thing

 

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf includes the lines for 'smart' relay

 

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)

DSsmtpgateway.customer.com   

 

Where smtpgateway.customer.com was the fully qualified name for the customer
SMTP gateway server

 

An entry for this was also placed in my /etc/inet/hosts file

 

#

#          MAIL SMTP Gateway Server

#

10.35.96.40       smtpgateway     smtpgateway.customer.com

#

 

Stop and restart sendmail

 

pkill -HUP sendmail

 

All of which I'd tried before but which had failed

 

/usr/lib/sendmail -v support@mycompany.com </dev/null

 

Reported that the mail was queued on smtpgateway.customer.com but I never
got it.

Your replies confirmed I wasn't going mad so tried emailing to an internal
account of the customer

 

/usr/lib/sendmail -v username@customer.com </dev/null

 

Which they reported getting without delay

 

So in the end it is permissions on the customer SMTP gateway server which I
need to sort out

 

Thanks for all the replies and sorry if I've done a 'suck eggs' explanation
here but thought it best to keep it as complete but simple as possible

 

Darren
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