Configuring notification mailer in EBS R12

1. Login to your EBS as an system administrator.
2. Navigate to System Administration-->OAM-->Workflow
3. You can find all the related information regarding your workflow system.
4. Navigate to Notification Mailers and edit basic configuration
5. details--> name workflow notification mailer
6. Outbound Email Account (SMTP)--> Server Name--> Host Name of the machine used to send email notifications (including full domain name).
7. Inbound Email Account (IMAP)--> Uncheck Inbound Processing --> Server Name--> Host Name of the machine to receive the email replies (including full domain name)-->Username--> Username for the Inbound Server-->Password-->Password for the Inbound Server--> Reply-to-address--> The address of the e-mail account that receives incoming messages, to which notification responses should be sent (for example: fred.smith@company.com).
8. Apply the changes done to notification mailer
9. Go back to Notification mailers main page and you can see Actions --> just start your notifcation mailers.
10. Click on Workflow in your OAM--> you can see all the listeners like (Notification Mailers, Agent Listeners, Service Components) are up.
11. This completes Workflow Notification Mailer Setup.

Send Mail option in RHEL ES 4.7

1. Download send mail rpm from rpmfind.net
2. Install the rpm
3. Go to /etc/mail, here u will find sendmail related files
4. Now send the configuration file sendmail.mc to sendmail.cf using m4 (macro processor) after backing up sendmail.mc and sendmail.cf
5. Mail ] # m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
6. Mail ] # m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
7. Go to /etc/init.d for newaliases and restart send mail (service sendmail restart)
8. Change permissions for sendmail.cf (chmod –R 700 sendmail.cf)
9. Go to tmp (directory) to check if sendmail is running using following command
10. tmp ] # pgrep sendmail
11. It should return pid if it is running and return blank if it is not running
12. To check the interface on which sendmail is listening using the following command
13. tmp ] # netstat –an grep :25 grep tcp
14. It should show a list of tcp listeners
15. Go to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and modify/edit the file as follows:
    Comment DAEMON_OPTIONS to make sendmail listen to NIC
    Comment “accept_unresolvable_domains” to avoid SPAM
    Comment “relay_based_on_MTI” to avoid mails from other PC’s which are not configured on the domain.
16. Regenerate the sendmail.cf file as in step 4
17. Configure the sendmail in /etc/hosts file
    Ipaddress hostname.domainname
    Example: 10.0.0.143 localhost.domainname.com localhost mail www
18. Now try sending mail as follows
    Tmp ] # sendmail –v ****@domain.com
    Test text
    Test text
    . (dot)
19. Now we can check the status or errors mail sent in /var/log/maillog
20. If mail is sent status will be shown as stat=sent if not stat=deffered