"Airhart, Chad M." wrote:
>
> Help. I followed solution #1 for DNS not running on the AW. Modified the
> hosts file. Had to also modify the rc.foxapps file because the subnet the
> exchange server is on was not routed to the AW51C subnet. Ran the command
> as listed to send a junk file to my email address and was unsuccessful. The
> command ran as if it were successful but I received no mail. I am now at a
> loss as to how to troubleshoot further. I don't see any references to .log
> or .err files. Any help would be appreciated.
Email can be a pain!
Try this to help with fault finding
/usr/lib/sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] </dev/null
(replace [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a valid email address)
You should see something like this
/usr/lib/sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] </dev/null
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to mailhost (ether)...
220 nrggos.com.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8; Fri, 17 Nov 2000
11:01:05 +1000 (EST)
>>> HELO ENGAW1.nrggos.com.au
250 nrggos.com.au Hello eaw-a [192.168.2.191], pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<dbond@ENGAW1>
250 <dbond@ENGAW1>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 LAA25705 Message accepted for delivery
>>> QUIT
221 nrggos.com.au closing connection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent (LAA25705 Message accepted for delivery)
Our email is relayed internally by a Sun box (Not Foxboro) to an
Exchange Server
The exchange server prints a similar output when it is working Ok.
See if this helps
Darryl Bond
>
> Chad Airhart
> Instrument, Electrical & Control Systems Engineer
> Equistar Chemicals, LP.
> Victoria, TX
> Wk. (361) 572-2568
> Pgr. (361) 270-2214 alpha messaging at www.arch.com
> Fx. (361) 572-2541
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:34 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Digest] Email from AW51B to MS Exchange
> >
> > Objective: Send the contents of a file as an email from a
> > AW51B (Solaris) to a Microsoft Exchange mail server
> > running on an NT platform that is "visible" to the
> > second ethernet port of the AW.
> >
> > Issues: There are numerous ways (sendmail, mail, mailx, etc)
> > to send the actual email. These will not be discussed.
> >
> >
> > Credits: Jack Franz, Tim Lowell, and Joe Markham for answers
> >
> > Lance Dusing, for a lot of testing.
> >
> >
> > Each of the following solutions was tested on an AW51B running
> > I/A version 6.1.1 connecting to MSExchange running on an NT platform.
> > All answers and programs were stripped to the minimal working
> > configuration. This was to make the answer as clear and concise as
> > possible and does not mean that additional configuration would not be
> > beneficial, it is however, unnecessary.
> >
> >
> > ---> IF DNS IS RUNNING ON THE AW
> >
> > 1) If there is a DNS server available on your network that
> > is properly configured, there should be an MX record pointing
> > to the mail server. In this case the email functions should
> > work without any additional configuration.
> >
> > cat file | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > This should send the file to the specified user.
> >
> >
> > ---> IF DNS IS *NOT* RUNNING ON THE AW
> >
> > **** SOLUTION #1 UPDATE THE /etc/hosts FILE ****
> >
> > By far the simplest solution was send in by Jack Franz
> >
> > Simply add the IP address of the mail server to the
> > /etc/hosts file and follow the entry with the word mailhost
> >
> > example line from /etc/hosts
> >
> > 192.168.1.1 BAMA_NT_SERVER2 mailhost
> >
> > cat file | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > This proved to be the easiest solution. It was simple and
> > fast to implement and it worked well with no side effects.
> >
> >
> > **** SOLUTION #2 UPDATE THE /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ****
> >
> > Tim Lowell sent this one in. This solution was a little
> > more involved but offers some more flexibility.
> >
> > Put an entry in /etc/hosts with the name of the
> > Exchange server and the corresponding IP address.
> > (It does not require the mailhost alias as answer #1 does.)
> >
> > Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
> > Edit the two lines after the comment "#major relay host",
> > as in:
> >
> >
> > # major relay host
> > DR{put DNS or NetBIOS name of Exchange server here}
> > CR{put DNS or NetBIOS name of Exchange server here}
> >
> >
> > This solution worked and was the first one we tested.
> > Configuring sendmail is a bit of a black art to me,
> > but this is a pretty straightforward answer and it was
> > quick to implement.
> >
> > **** SOLUTION #3 USE A perl PROGRAM ****
> >
> > This one was sent in by Joe Markham. Joe's program
> > originally forwarded the mail from root to another account.
> > As stated in the head of this e-mail, I stripped this to
> > a minimal program to send a test text string. Initially
> > I thought that the perl approach might allow me to specify
> > the IP address in dot notation and not even have the mail
> > server address in the /etc/hosts file. Unfortunately I was
> > not able to do that. Apparently the SMTP perl module uses
> > the gethostname function? I also had to get the SMTP perl
> > module from the internet then make and install the module.
> > Somewhat difficult for me and my poor old sun, but we
> > muddled through.
> >
> > !Program text follows
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > use Net::SMTP;
> > $server='bama_nt_server2';
> > $address='[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> >
> > $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($server,Hello=>$address);
> > $smtp->mail($address);
> > $smtp->to($address);
> > $head="To: David Johnson <$address>\n";
> > $head.="From: AW51B1 Foxboro <$address>\n";
> > $head.='Subject: Forwarded Root e-mail' . "\n";
> > $mesg="Here is the message you requested. Amazing is it not?";
> > $smtp->data();
> > $smtp->datasend($head);
> > $smtp->datasend("\n");
> > $smtp->datasend($mesg);
> > $smtp->dataend();
> > $smtp->quit;
> >
> > undef $smtp;
> >
> >
> > #end of script
> >
> > This was by far the most difficult solution to implement, but
> > that was primarily due to the fact that I had an outdated
> > version of perl installed and had to upgrade perl and get the
> > necessary perl modules. On the plus side this gives you
> > complete control over the way your mail is formatted and sent.
> > And after I got it to run it was relatively easy to modify.
> >
> >
> > So there you have it. Several different ways to get a file emailed
> > from a sun to a MSExchange mail server running on NT. I would think
> > that this would work on any SMTP based mail server like Lotus CC mail,
> > or maybe even Lotus Notes but we have not tested it with those servers.
> >
> >
> > I hope this was helpful.
> >
> > Regards,
> > David
> >
> >
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