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send local mail through other server

Asked by: pepitoH

I have Solaris: SunOS 5.9
I am running a cron backup using Amanda.
Amanda sends a log to a specified user in the config file.
I want that mail to go to a non-local user. To an outside email account (hotmail for instance)

Is there a way to make local mail go through another mail server?
Or does anyone know how to make amanda send dump logs to non-local emails?

Thanks

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Answers

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 10:54:34ID: 10651534

you could build an alias for that local user to go to a different user.  look in /etc/mail/aliases

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-22 at 11:05:21ID: 10651611

man you're fast.

I've tried adding an alias to my user:
local SUN user: danny

in /etc/mail/aliases
I added the line:
amanda:daniel@w3.com.ar

but when I send a local mail to amanda it doesn't go to daniel@w3.com.ar

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 11:14:08ID: 10651677

i'm assuming your server is already set up to send emails?

as in:

echo "test" | /usr/lib/sendmail your.email@domain

works?

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 11:16:45ID: 10651693

and after you edited the alias file, you rehashed, right?

for the sendmail that came with solaris 9:

cd /etc/mail; /usr/sbin/makemap hash aliases < aliases

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-22 at 11:23:49ID: 10651764

Yes the test sends mails ok.

The last time I didn't do the rehash.
I ran:
/usr/sbin/makemap hash aliases < aliases
inside /etc/mail
and got this:
makemap: aliases: line 57: no RHS for LHS danny:daniel@w3.com.ar

Do you know what it is?
I tried sending a local mail to user danny but it doesn't work.

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 11:30:07ID: 10651822

there has to be a space between the : and the email address, like:

danny: daniel@w3.com.ar

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-22 at 11:37:34ID: 10651882

yep I did a search on google and that was the problem,

But...
I can't manage to send a local mail to user danny.

daniel@w3.com.ar is my external email account
This works great:
echo "test" | /usr/lib/sendmail daniel@w3.com.ar

but this doesn't:
echo "test" | /usr/lib/sendmail danny

I also tried:
#mail danny
to: danny
subject: test

this is a test
.
And after the dot, it does nothing.
It used to send the mail to the local account.

Thanks for being so fast.

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 11:42:49ID: 10651934

is sendmail running on a service? (ps -ef | grep sendmail)

if so, then kill and restart.

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 11:42:56ID: 10651936

as, not on

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-22 at 12:00:47ID: 10652121

I killed it:
# ps -ef |grep sendmail
   smmsp  2452  2451  0 16:54:12 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -- danny
    root  2472  2462  0 16:55:25 pts/7    0:00 grep sendmail
    root  2453  2444  0 16:54:13 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m
   smmsp  2447     1  0 16:53:47 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m
    root  2444     1  0 16:53:47 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m
# kill -9 2452
# kill -9 2444
# kill -9 2447
# kill -9 2453
# ps -ef |grep sendmail
    root  2474  2462  0 16:56:24 pts/7    0:00 grep sendmail
#

And restarted it:
#/etc/init.d/sendmail start

But I can't send local mails.
It gets "stuck" when trying to send a mail to danny or another local user.

 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2004-03-22 at 13:49:56ID: 10653056

why not simply using .forward ?

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 14:05:29ID: 10653178

.forward is basically the same as using the aliases file, major exception being that using aliases the user does not have to exist.

this appears to be an issue of the default submit.cf file not utilizing the local mail delivery subsystem; in trying to create a solution on one of my solaris 9 systems, i am getting the same issues.

 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2004-03-22 at 14:33:26ID: 10653388

>  .forward is basically the same as using the aliases file, major exception ..
.. the (existing) user decides, not the MTA

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-22 at 14:41:30ID: 10653455

how is .forward used?
Pardon my ignorance?

fim32: I still can't send local mails.. do you know what the problem may be?

Thanks.

 

by: fim32Posted on 2004-03-22 at 14:51:03ID: 10653525

ahoffman: now that is true, however it would appear on this particular request, that pepito is the owner of the system.  also, as local mails are not being delivered, i highly doubt that the mail would ever get to the .forward file

pepito... ouch... what a pain in the butt.  it appears the problem is the translation from local users into the local delivery agent, as opposed to using the default mail delivery subsystem.  you're going to have to go into /usr/lib/mail/cf and edit your main.mc file.  given, that i'm not sure how your sendmail is set up, i'll show you how mine works... this particular machine is operating solely as a sendmail client, but will need to have a sendmail daemon running that listens exclusively on localhost:

between the DOMAIN and the  MAILER line, add this feature:
FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl

then there should be a couple of mailers, local and smtp, and finally add these options (not necessary if you want your daemon to listen on all addresses, this will limit connections to this host only):
DAEMON_OPTIONS(``Port=smtp, Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA'')dnl

note, that at the beginning of the parentheses, those are backwards quotes (not the regular ones).

save it, then regenerate a config file from it, using make (which is in /usr/ccs/bin, if that's not already in your path):
make main.cf

save a copy of your existing /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and cp this main.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

then restart your sendmail:
pkill -HUP sendmail

now, local mails should be delivered... and the aliasing we did earlier will work... and, if you want to take ahoffman's advice, you can create a user named danny, or amanda, and put a .forward file in that user's home directory, with the email to forward to in it...

 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2004-03-22 at 14:53:32ID: 10653542

echo 'daniel@w3.com.ar' > ~/.forward

# and enjoy

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-23 at 05:56:22ID: 10657485

Thanks guys! you've been very helpful.

 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2004-03-23 at 08:04:24ID: 10658613

means you got your sendmail  running?

 

by: pepitoHPosted on 2004-03-23 at 08:24:23ID: 10658829

Yes..
Thanks for your help ahoffmann:

Here are some extra points for you..

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Solaris/Q_20928932.html

sorry I didn't split, I forgot.

Anyway.. have you managed to get samba working?
I have a question regarding this with windows 2003:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Solaris/Q_20924699.html

Thanks

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