Sendmail, Solaris 10

b1f30 · 07-22-2008, 01:11 PM

All - I want to use Sendmail to send root's email to usera, userb, userc.

What's a quick and dirty approach? Something I can at least test and then maybe throw into a cron job? I'm not very experienced with Sendmail/Solaris, but not quite total n00b.

Thanks!

gparrish · 07-22-2008, 01:58 PM

Have you tried this or do you need something tp happen with sendmail specifically. I think sendmail will process this just all done as local mail.

$ vi /etc/mail/aliases

Add:
root: usera,userb,userc

$ newaliases

b1f30 · 07-22-2008, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gparrish

Have you tried this or do you need something tp happen with sendmail specifically. I think sendmail will process this just all done as local mail.

$ vi /etc/mail/aliases

Add:
root: usera,userb,userc

$ newaliases

Thank you for your reply.

Let me try to be more specific: About every 10 minutes, I would like to have root's local mail sent to usera@company.com, userb@company.com, userc@company.com - if that makes more light of what I'm trying to do. It's simple admin stuff I know, but I only really know enough Sendmail/Solaris to be dangerous and nothing more.

b1f30 · 07-22-2008, 02:22 PM

Also - how to send mail via command line? For instance:

# sendmail -s test usera@company.com

Is that the proper syntax, etc?

Thanks!

gparrish · 07-23-2008, 09:07 AM

To send email every 10 minutes use cron. To send all root email to these users just redirect the root email destination using the aliases file or a .forward file.

Again first update the aliases file as follows:

root: usera@company.com,userb@company.com,userc@company.com

Then send test email and see the results you get.

echo test | mail root
echo test | mailx -s 'test mail' root

If this fails review the log files under /var/log/ or /var/adm/

b1f30 · 07-23-2008, 11:56 AM

Code:

Jul 23 12:49:07 solarisserver sendmail[8668]: [ID 702911 mail.crit] My unqualified host name (solarisserver) unknown; sleeping for retry

Looks like the box needs a FQDN? Again - pretty much a Sendmail n00b.

Thanks for any/all assistance.