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Thank you jlevie, most helpful.
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Hi<br />
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This is a basic question for which I apologise. It is also something I have done before, but on this new server it is not working.<br />
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I want a backup (cron) job to email me its logfile. I use a line such as:<br />
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&nbsp;/bin/cat $LOGFILE | /bin/mailx -s &quot;Backup log&quot; m.milhofer@atriumsoft.com.<wbr /><br />
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In the past I have succeeded without running sendmail daemon on the server in question, simply by editing the /etc/hosts file to include a line like:<br />
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192.168.10.1 &nbsp; mailhost<br />
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But this time I am receiving the following if I run in verbose mode:<br />
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$ m.milhofer@atriumsoft.com.<wbr />.. Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...<br />
m.milhofer@atriumsoft.com.<wbr />.. Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]<br />
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If I use /usr/bin/sendmail I get the same message. It looks to me as though mailx/sendmail is not finding my reference to the mail server.<br />
Could someone help me find the obvious oversight I am missing?<br />
Many thanks<br />
Manfred<br />
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Hi

This is a basic question for which I apologise. It is also something I have done before, but on this new server it is not working.

I want a backup (cron) job to email me its logfile. I use a line such as:

 /bin/cat $LOGFILE | /bin/mailx -s "Backup log" m.milhofer@atriumsoft.com.

In the past I have succeeded without running sendmail daemon on the server in question, simply by editing the /etc/hosts file to include a line like:

192.168.10.1   mailhost

But this time I am receiving the following if I run in verbose mode:

$ m.milhofer@atriumsoft.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
m.milhofer@atriumsoft.com... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

If I use /usr/bin/sendmail I get the same message. It looks to me as though mailx/sendmail is not finding my reference to the mail server.
Could someone help me find the obvious oversight I am missing?
Many thanks
Manfred



How to use mailx to relay email from a Solaris server via an SMTP server on the same network

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