Re: activate mailx in AIX 5.2
- From: "Unused1980" <unused1980@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Jan 2006 09:33:26 -0800
Hi saam,
if my guess is correct, you would like to use another smtp server to
relay your mails out. since you are using mailx. however sendmail in
aix is configured and started by default to act as an smtp server
itself to relay any mails locally going out. but for most cases... "i'm
not sure about your network environment" it will fail when it tries to
contact the domain you are sending to directly either because it does
not have a fully qualified domain name or the destination does not
allow that or maybe its not even able to route to the WAN or a public
routable ip if you are saying yahoo or gmail.
however, if you already have a smtp server which you always use to
relay any mails from other hosts, i think it should be quite straight
forward.
most likely you will only need to add in your 3 lpars ip addresses to
allow relay, on your smtp server. And then go to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
on all 3 lpars, look for a line that starts with "DS".
it should say something like smart relay host.... then append your smtp
DNS name or ipaddress
e.g.
DSsmtp.mydomain.com
DS10.10.10.10
in fact once you do this, you do not need to start sendmail subsystem
anymore... so you can comment it out in your /etc/rc.tcpip
hope this helps =)
.
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