Mailx smtp connection problem
 

Hello,

I would like to send an email with mailx from my server, but the emails were not delivered to my email box/address on a Exchange server.

It seems that the mail / sendmail / exim / whatever want to use the smtp server added to one domain, but I want to use another smtp server.

When I run "mail -v myemailaddres", the end of the verbose informaion looks like this:


050 <myemailaddress>,<myemailaddress2>... Connecting to mail.somedomain.biz. via esmtp...
050 <myemailaddress>,<myemailaddress2>... Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.somedomain.biz.
250 2.0.0 r2DEvgvm029236 Message accepted for delivery
myemailaddress,myemailaddress2... Sent (r2DEvgvm029236 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 (none) closing connection


Mailq command says the following:

r2DCW2q1031793 22 Wed Mar 13 13:32 <root@server-domain.biz>
(Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.somedomain.biz.)


Problem is that I would like to use "new.somedomain.biz" which is not the same what "mail -v" want to use.

My mail.rc config contains the hostname of the good smtp server

(none):/var/log# cat /etc/mail.rc
set ask askcc append dot save crt
ignore Received Message-Id Resent-Message-Id Status Mail-From Return-Path Via Delivered-To
set smtp=new.somedomain.biz
set from=root@server-domain.biz


How can I "ask" mailx to use new.somedomain.biz ?

Thank you!

You need to set your MTA to use a relay host. Make sure that the host you are relaying to allows your linux host access.

Hello,

Thank you, I tried that. I used sendmailconfig command, and added new.somedomain.biz as a smarthost.

Now email is working.