But i want to send a mail using cli prompt, can someone tell me which client can help me to achieve this and the way to configure that. Earlier solaris releases were configured to accept incoming mail from all remote systems, which is known as the. Having installed oracle 10g and various other releases as a part of project implementationsupgrade on various environments thought itd be a good idea to spread the knowledge. Mar 03, 2014 1 ask you mail server administrator to allow mail relay for solaris server. If you wish to install solaris 10 on vmware heres the link. Smmsp is listed in the worlds largest and most authoritative dictionary database of abbreviations and acronyms. Sending emails from bash script in solaris vm unix. Even if you have not previously build any software yourself it should not scare you. Lets assume that smtp is the name of the smart relay host.
Solaris 10 sparc security technical implementation guide. Also no mention on if youre using solaris 10, or 11. The solaris 10 sparc security technical implementation guide stig is published as a tool to improve the security of department of defense dod information systems. Starting in the solaris 10 106 release, smtp can use transport layer security tls in version 8. Step by step oracle 10g r2 installation on solaris 10 zakki. Most likely the only thing you need will be editing the nf and setting the dsip for the relay host.
However, i always recommend postfix over hi, im using solaris 10, and i want to install sendmail. During the process we build postfix from scratch from source code. This page covers the configuration of sendmail on solaris 7 and solaris 8 to send outgoing mail to an isp using smtp. If any of the sendmail configuration file has a wrong permission, the sendmail daemon would not work properly. Hi i need to send mail from command prompt in solaris to public domain, i have my email account in some popular service provider like aol, gmail, yahoo, hotmail. The recommended method for changing it is to modify etcmail sendmail.
I will often create a user and group called sendmail with uid and gid 24 smmsp is usually uid and gid 25. Sendmail s primary configuration file, etcmail sendmail. Jul 28, 2016 hi i need to send mail from command prompt in solaris to public domain, i have my email account in some popular service provider like aol, gmail, yahoo, hotmail. The recommended method for changing it is to modify etcmailsendmail. We have tried everything we could think of to adjust this to force the q to go every 1 minute but so far no. Smmsp sendmail message submission program unix mail. Sendmail often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the result of other problems, such as overly permissive modes on directories.
The difference between the sendmail daemon in solaris 910 and prior versions. March 14, 2010 unix clear, mail queue, mailq, mqueue, sendmail disbale, sendmail stop, solaris 10 jamal ahmed. Sun has released patches to address the sendmail address parsing buffer overflow vulnerability in sun cobalt qube 3. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by sendmail. Changing the sendmail configuration oracle solaris. Sendmail mta for linux unix authsmtp alternate port. May 18, 2011 this is to make sendmail more secure by not giving out setuid for root in the binary, unlike solaris 8 and below which has one queue varspoolmqueue.
Solved sendmail on solaris 10 email servers spiceworks. The smmsp sendmail message submission program user and group are specific to the sendmail package and are not used by postfix or any other mail transfer agent mta smmsp is the default user that sendmail uses if you havent configured a specific nonroot user for the sendmail command to run as. Click to share on twitter opens in new window click to share on facebook opens in new window click to share on tumblr opens in new window. All or local so i added this line and every thing is ok now. Sendmail configuration in solaris 10 oracle community. Nobody will ever actually log in as this user, so you can lock the password entry and use an invalid shell and home directory. This may reveal the secret if the other side offers a plaintext authentication mechanism. Sendmail configuration in solaris 10 807557 jun 8, 2005 3. Smmsp is defined as sendmail message submission program unix mail program somewhat frequently. The ultimate solaris sendmail troubleshooting guide the geek diary. Last update 20060415 terminology installation configuration introduction sendmail 8. If you look in, that dj and ds directives are actually supposed to pull externally defined memory variables into and sendmail memory space set. As indicated in the comments, you should configure sendmail. This usually results in having to manually restore the, and possibly the sendmail binary to avoid mail failures.
I have a sendmail server on a solaris 10 server thats stopped working. The solaris 10 os stores user account and group entry information in the following. If i telnet to my mailrelay on port 25 and compose an email that way it works. How to configure sendmails smart relay host solaris commands. Smmsp stands for sendmail message submission program unix mail program. Sendmail experts tend to call themselves wizardsas if complex, buggy, mysterious, hardtouse software is. Also make sure that your main mail server accepts mail from your vm. Thist post is about installation of oracle 10g r2 on solaris 10. How is sendmail message submission program unix mail program abbreviated. Hewlettpackard has rereleased a security bulletin with updated patches for hpux 11. Also, this script works on other solaris box which has same version as sunos 5. Sendmail s primary configuration file, etcmail, is complex and not meant to be directly edited.
This usually results in having to manually restore the sendmail. When the fsflush daemon run, it scans the page cache looking for pages with the mmu reference bit set, and schedules these pages to be written to disk. The book covers a broad range of solaris network administration topics such as remote file systems, mail, slp, and ppp. Sendmail has poor addon integration with useful filters such as spamassassin, procmail, ssl certificates, and various blackhole lists.
As far as i know, oracle has took over sun long back, then why there is this difference. The localonly mode means that only mail from the local host is accepted. Mar 14, 2010 solaris 10 sendmail stopstart march 14, 2010 unix clear, mail queue, mailq, mqueue, sendmail disbale, sendmail stop, solaris 10 jamal ahmed solaris 10. Heres a recipe for how to install postfix on solaris 11. I dont see your issue, or why you think sendmail or something else is running on the smtp port.
Charles grady senior solaris unix systems administrator 9 3752357 cg. To configure a solaris servers smart relay host, most people will simply edit the ds entry in etcmail and leave it at that. I look at etcshadow and i see that there is a smmsp account that was just created. We require emails to come from one of our solaris 10 boxes asap and have found that when using such things as sendmail and mailx all the mail goes to a q that only fires every 15 minutes. Seding attachment through mailx on sun solaris codeproject. A security vulnerability in sendmail1m versions prior to 8. Without any logs or other evidenceid say that your sendmail process is not working or not enabled for execution due to solaris 10 configuration. Step by step oracle 10g r2 installation on solaris 10. In the solaris 10 release, the sendmail service was changed so that it would run in localonly mode by default. Verify that this is true for solaris 9 it should be. Make sure the secret is not a real password used for an account somewhere. Sendmail experts tend to call themselves wizardsas if complex, buggy, mysterious, hardtouse software is acceptable. How to send mail using command prompt in solaris 10.
I received an alert the other day that etcshadow had been modified. A similar page describes the compilation, installation and configuration of fetchmail to collect incoming mail from an isps pop3 server. I recently deleted the two sendmail packages on a solaris 8 system both root and user components. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on sendmail. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. Sendmail problem after solaris 10 patch cluster i do have a mail relay i have to go through so i cant hit the outside world directly.
The smmsp sendmail message submission program user and group are specific to the sendmail package and are not used by postfix or any other mail transfer agent mta. In solaris, there is system daemon which flushes dirty filesystem pages to disk fsflush the pagedaemon scanned the page cache and set the mmu reference bit if dirty page finds. These are also the last postfix packages im going to provide for solaris 10 and will no longer build and any new postfix packages. For the benefit of future readers searching for smmsp on server fault smmsp. Resolving sysprep problems with appx packages part 1 this is the first of two articles explaining how to fix systems that wont sysprep if windows nativeappx applications have been removed and windows patches. That has always been all thats needed to configure sendmail on solaris since sol. This package is to replace sendmail on solaris 10, so you have to uninstall sendmail first.
The difference between the sendmail daemon in solaris 9 10 and prior versions with the release of sendmail 8. This can lead to outofspace problem on misconfigured solaris hostszones. In solaris 9 and above, there are 2 sendmail daemons for the 2 queues. I cant seem to find anything about failed messages in varadm sendmail. Now i need to send mail from the machines to my outlook account. Solaris 9 uses 2 queue paradigm and thus there are 2 sendmail daemons. Sendmail is one of the oldest and mostly widely used mtas in the world. Introduction to linux a hands on guide this guide was created as an overview of the linux operating system, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. The difference between the sendmail daemon in solaris 910 and prior versions with the release of sendmail 8.
This service to smtp servers and clients provides private, authenticated communications over the internet, as well as protection from eavesdroppers and attackers. Upgrading sendmail to postfix on solaris oracle solaris blog. If your isp delivers incoming mail by means of smtp, please also read configuring sendmail to accept incoming email. To use sendmail on solaris with our service you will need to compile sendmail from sources and configure support for sasl as part of the build. Any changes to the configuration files, requires the refresh the sendmail service. Now what are the setting i need to do in solaris machines so that i can use mailx or sendmail. The group is smmsp and is the same group that owns the sendmail binary. Note that im running solaris 8 at home and im not sure of, if any, differences. The default installation of sendmail on solaris 10 11 has not been built with support for sasl which is required for smtp authentication.
Jul 30, 2016 the difference between the sendmail daemon in solaris 9 10 and prior versions with the release of sendmail 8. Upgrade of sendmail on a solaris 7 system to version 8. You could see if there is a process is running using something like ps aef and looking for the sendmail processes. What method should i use to disable external connections on port. How to configure sendmails smart relay host solaris. Do not use the special smmsp user and group that the msp usescreate a new user and group id. Historically sendmail was installed as a setuid binary that was owned by user root. By removing the stock sendmail packages, sendmail patches will not be installed. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address. Sendmail message submission program unix mail program smmsp. The sendmail or bat book, the bible for sendmail users, is 8 pages long sendmail has poor addon integration with useful filters such as spamassassin, procmail, ssl certificates, and various blackhole lists people who favor sendmail seem to like gratuitous complexity. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 10 release.
For more information, see how to obtain administrative rights in oracle solaris administration. Sendmail s long life has made it complicated to configure and maintain, but it makes up for its drawbacks with its ability to do just about anything. People who favor sendmail seem to like gratuitous complexity. This document describes the necessary steps for installation and operation of this feature with sendmail 8. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 systems, where appropriate. Sendmail smf services in solaris oracle out of memory blog. Most likely the only thing you need will be editing the sendmail. There is a script that comes bundled with sendmail to verify the permissions of the sendmail related files in etcmail directory. It is the default mta for most unix distributions, including hps hpux, ibms aix, and sun microsystems solaris os. General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. The ultimate solaris sendmail troubleshooting guide. You must restart sendmail daemon after editing file. Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on sendmail.
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