RE: {bb} emailing not working - PLEASE HELP????? desperate!

["Adam Kendall" <akendall@nuw.org.au>]

Hi gents,


bbsys.sh has the following entries (which I think is the default):

MAIL="/usr/bin/mail -s"         # MAIL WITH SUBJECT FOR PAGING
set $MAIL
MAILC="$1"

When I do whereis mail - I get the following:
mail: /bin/mail /etc/mail.rc /usr/lib/mail.tildehelp /usr/lib/mail.help
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz

Should I change the entry in bbsys.sh to MAIL="/bin/mail -s"   ??????

Im not familiar with the command line mail utility, but when I do this
commmand:
mail -s hi akendall@nuw.org.au
.
Cc: akendall@nuw.org.au
Null message body; hope that's ok

I get nothing in my inbox akendall@nuw.org.au


My notifications.log contains entries that are very similar to the
following:
Fri Feb  3 03:35:56 2006 xpclient.nuw.org.au.conn (192168003010)
akendall@nuw.org.au 1138898156 500
Fri Feb  3 02:22:03 2006 xpclient.nuw.org.au.cpu (192168000123)
akendall@nuw.org.au 1138893723 200






 
Kind regards,
 
Adam Kendall
IT Officer
National Union of Workers
Phone: 03 9287 1880
Fax:     03 9287 1717

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of Philip
Clark
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 6:14 AM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} emailing not working - PLEASE HELP????? desperate!

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 13:19, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> Can you email to that address from the command line?
> BB doesn't do anything special with emails.  What does 
> the notifications.log say?
> 
> Paul

Also, the tokens bbemailfromaddress: and mailrelay: do not need
to be added to bbwarnsetup.cfg and should be removed.

The utility that BB is trying to use, in order to send mail, is
defined as MAIL in etc/bbsys.sh. It may be possible to configure
this (or an alternative) to talk directly to your Exchange server.
However, if you are relying on e-mail alerts, this gives you
another point of failure. If (or should that be when) your
Exchange server goes down, you will not get an alert.

More traditional for Unix (and Unix-like) systems is to run mail
server software on the BB server. That can then be configured
to relay messages to the Exchange server and to alternate
locations.

Cheers, Phil.



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