Hello all,

I'm having trouble setting up sendmail to do some simple admin
messaging.

I have 48 AIX servers divided amongst 16 remote sites on an internal
corporate network.

As of yet, there isn't any domain configuration on these systems.

I need the ability to forward administrative messages to an SMTP server
at the main office and I'm getting bogged down with the myriad of
sendmail settings.

As the links to these remotes sites can be down from time to time, I
need the ability to store and forward the messages to the remote SMTP
server.

I thought it would be simple as no other users will be using the mail
features on these systems and all messages would be outbound. All the
examples I've found so far are for more complex environments.

Can anyone recommend what to do here or have examples of how I should go
about setting this up??

Many thanks for your help,
-Scott

In article <MPG.1b0657d5e0b42328989690@news-west.giganews.com>,
someone@somewhere.net says...
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having trouble setting up sendmail to do some simple admin
> messaging.
>
> I have 48 AIX servers divided amongst 16 remote sites on an internal
> corporate network.
>
> As of yet, there isn't any domain configuration on these systems.
>
> I need the ability to forward administrative messages to an SMTP server
> at the main office and I'm getting bogged down with the myriad of
> sendmail settings.
>
> As the links to these remotes sites can be down from time to time, I
> need the ability to store and forward the messages to the remote SMTP
> server.
>
> I thought it would be simple as no other users will be using the mail
> features on these systems and all messages would be outbound. All the
> examples I've found so far are for more complex environments.
>
> Can anyone recommend what to do here or have examples of how I should go
> about setting this up??
>
> Many thanks for your help,
> -Scott

Apologize as this is probably a dumb question.

As no domain names are set and DNS isn't being used, I'm assuming I
still need to go through and and least set the domain names?

On Sat, 8 May 2004 03:36:07 -0700, Scott <someone@somewhere.net>
wrote:

>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm having trouble setting up sendmail to do some simple admin
>messaging.
>
>I have 48 AIX servers divided amongst 16 remote sites on an internal
>corporate network.
>
>As of yet, there isn't any domain configuration on these systems.
>
>I need the ability to forward administrative messages to an SMTP server
>at the main office and I'm getting bogged down with the myriad of
>sendmail settings.
>
>As the links to these remotes sites can be down from time to time, I
>need the ability to store and forward the messages to the remote SMTP
>server.
>
>I thought it would be simple as no other users will be using the mail
>features on these systems and all messages would be outbound. All the
>examples I've found so far are for more complex environments.
>
>Can anyone recommend what to do here or have examples of how I should go
>about setting this up??
>
>Many thanks for your help,
>-Scott
>
Scott

You can put the name of a relay to forward all mails to in
/etc/sendmail.cf. search for "DS" and put it in there. I'm not sure
if it can be an IP address or host name. If it needs to be a host
name you may be able to get away with putting an entry for the host in
your local host file.

One other thing, you don't need sendmail running all the time (more
secure) just to send mails. What you may want to do though is have a
cron job running every so often to invoke it and flush any queued up
mails you may have. You should only get these if the host was unable
to contact the relay when you 1st tried to send the mail. Something
like "sendmail -q". I'm not able to verify that switch right now,
but I think it's the right one....

Steven