need to configure mail setting to send mail to outlook mail server

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i have sun machines having solaris 9 & 10 OS . Now i need to send mail from the machines to my outlook account . I have the ip adress of OUTLOOK mail server. Now what are the setting i need to do in solaris machines so that i can use mailx or sendmail.

actually i am trying to automate the high cpu usage and disk usage cases , So that i can recieve mail if the server is NOK.

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Although its not a 100% solution but its working .

Just add your mail server address in /etc/hosts

 
12.115.40.19       amit.com

then check you are able to connect to the mail sever @smtp port (25)

 
bash-3.00# telnet amit.com 25
Trying 12.115.40.19 ...
Connected to amit.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mumrel002.emea.amit-intra.net ESMTP generic mail handler
quit
221 2.0.0 mumrel002.emea.amit-intra.net closing connection

Then if everything is ok you can send the mail using this simple script from your machine. This is used by me on solaris 10 machine , you can adapt it to any other OS.

 
#!/bin/ksh
auser=` who am i | awk '{print $1}'`
hname=`hostname`
( echo open amit.com 25
  echo "HELO nsn.com"
  echo "MAIL FROM:<$auser@$hname>"
  echo "RCPT TO:<amit.ranjan.sahu@amit.com>"
  echo "RCPT TO:<amit@amit.com>"
  echo "DATA"
  echo "what ever you want to send"
  echo "."
  echo "quit"    ) | telnet
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connect to ip with user and pwd.

echo "$data" |mailx -s "subject" "amit.com"

this will data to mail..

regrds
rajesh