Re: [foxboro] e-mail from AP51D to PC windows .

Easy test if you got a working SMTP mail server on the other side:

        telnet mailhost 25              # port 25 = SMTP

and type in commands 

        HELO
        QUIT

Sample session against an MS Exchange server with an Internet Mail Service 
(SMTP mail provider):

        cci07-/home/cci/cimserv # telnet mailhost 25
        Trying 10.66.250.5...
        Connected to cci05.cimconcepts.com.
        Escape character is '^]'.
        220 cci05.cimconcepts.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet 
Mail Service 5.5.2653.13)   ready                                   # first 
test passed - got a session on port 25
        HELO                                    # to see if it answers to 
commands
        250 OK
        QUIT                                    # to exit
        221 closing connection
        Connection closed by foreign host.

This test should work against ANY WORKING SMTP server (MS Exchange, Lotus 
Notes, UNIXes etc.), it uses common, basic SMTP commands.

We've set up a bunch of these connections over the years from 51-series boxes 
and other UNIXes in LAN/WAN environments - works like a charm.  
Can even be used to send mail to outside recipients, as long as relaying of 
SMTP mail through the corporate mail server has not been disabled by the IS 
folks managing the mail server infrastructure.

BTW, another handy trick for sending mail from scripts under Solaris is to use 
mailx with -~ (-tilde) option.  You can construct a message in a script as a 
file and specify to: cc: bcc: subject: etc. inside the message file itself (for 
automatic notification etc.)

        mailx -~ somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx < mymailfile

with mymailfile content like

        ~t somebody.else@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx metoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ~c metoo.athome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ~s some subject line

We typically keep a (cc) copy of the mail file on the local system for 
troubleshooting, call-outs etc and just call 

        mailx -~ root < mymailfile

and specify the 'real' mail recipients and subjects inside the mail address 
files using ~t and ~c etc.   You can also use have predefined address lists / 
subjects in files and use cat to pipe the address list and the message body in 
like:

        cat myaddresslist mymailfile | mailx -~ root 

Gory details on the tilde commands can be found in the mailx man page.

Joachim Hirche
CIM Concepts Inc.
200 Continental Drive Ste 112  Newark  DE  19713  USA
302 368 8982 x111
mailto:Joachim.Hirche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: Schouten, Frits JF [mailto:Frits.Schouten@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 17:39
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [foxboro] e-mail from AP51D to PC windows .


Adding to this:
You don't have to change /etc/mail/sendmail.cf if the entry in /etc/host
looks like this:

123.456.789.123  mailhost

Make sure that you use the correct IP address for mailhost and not the above
example.

Cheers,
Frits Schouten
NZSteel.


-----Original Message-----
From: Lowell, Tim: [mailto:tlowell@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 21 June 2002 01:06
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [foxboro] e-mail from AP51D to PC windows .



Thierry,

Setting up e-mail:

1.      Figure out the IP address of your SMTP mail server (Outlook, Lotus
Notes, etc.).  You may need the IT group to help you out.  If they have
better things to do, which they often do, you can usually find the name of
the SMTP server from the header of an e-mail.  Once you get the name, you
can ping that name in Command Prompt to find the IP address.
2.      Add the name and IP address of the SMTP server to your /etc/hosts
file on the AW51D.  Follow the format that's there, i.e. IP address, tab,
server name.
3.      Edit the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf on the AW51D.  Find the line
that says:

        # major relay host
        DR<something>
        CR<something>

        Where I have <something>, enter in the name of the mail server
exactly as you entered it in /etc/hosts.  No spaces after DR and CR!

4.      To actually send mail, use either the command "mail" or "mailx" in a
script.  For example, the script could have a line:
        mailx -s "subject" me@xxxxxxxxxxxx < /opt/scripts/yourfile.txt

        Which would mail the file /opt/scripts/yourfile.txt to the address
me@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> .  I like mailx because you can add
the -s switch and include a subject.

This should set you up.  If it doesn't work, you're IT group may not have
SMTP set up on the mail server (unlikely), or you have a firewall that
blocks SMTP traffic between the AW and the mail server (more likely).  Good
luck!

Tim Lowell
Control Systems Engineer
Phillips Petroleum Company, Trainer Refinery
Phone:  610-364-8362
Fax:    610-364-8211
tlowell@xxxxxxxx


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Mougeot, Thierry T SPM-SMUC
[SMTP:Thierry.T.Mougeot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
        Sent:   Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:43 AM
        To:     list users IAS Foxboro (E-mail)
        Subject:        [foxboro] e-mail  from AP51D to PC windows .


        Hi list ,

        I'm looking for a script to send automatically by e-mail a ascii
file (
        result of isql request on historian , system monitor messages  ) to
a
        computer with operating system windows 2000 connects to the second
port
        ethernet of AP51D .=20
        I would be grateful if you could send me a script or instructions .

        Best Regards .

        MOUGEOT Thierry
        Secteur SMUC Utilites Chimie=20
        Shell P=E9trochimie M=E9diterran=E9e
        BP 14, 13131  Berre l'=E9tang, Cedex, France

        Tel: +33 4 42 74  57 03 Fax: 54 20
        Email: Thierry.Mougeot@xxxxxxxxx
        Internet: http://www.shell.com/chemicals

         
         
        
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