Originally posted by: ahmed_salah

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i am new in AIX i am trying to write a script to take a backup for specific files on server to and check error log if backup success send email to administrator , script done except for sending mail , i try to configure sendmail on aix to use our exchange server to send emails but still get error user unknown

Originally posted by: Siddhartha.Sinha

This is what I did in my AIX box

1. "Smart" relay host (may be null)

DS xyz.abc.com ( Put your exchange Server name)

last two lines are
CRxyz
CWabc.com ( Domain, but I think this one not necessary)

1. stopsrc -s sendmail
2. startsrc -s sendmail

or sendmail -bd -q 15m

In my relay Server

Djqwe.abc.com

This works perfectly. You may check your exchange server settings whether it is accepting the mails or not. if exchange server doesn't have the user names, then create a .forward file and give your user id

Originally posted by: ahmed_salah

hi,
thanks i did that exactly u can find sendmail.cf attached can u check it if i miss something
mail server : mail.gasco.com.eg
domain : gasco.com.eg

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

The use of a smart relay may be the easiest option. However, if DNS is setup at your location then it is not necessary. Try:
nslookup -querytype=MX your_domain.com
and look for lines containing information about the mail exchanger. My guess is that the DNS server(s) at your location do not know about the Exchange server, so you need to use the smart relay.

If your Windows systems use the same login name as the UNIX systems, then you should be able to send mail from the UNIX hosts. However, we had trouble sending e-mails outside of the company with Exchange. It turned out that we had to use the Windows e-mail name as the Sender, or the mail was blocked by the Exchange server.