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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Global Attributes properties
  6. Setting up mailx email client
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Setting up mailx email client

NetBackup supports setting up email notifications by using mailx client.

To set up a mailx email client

  1. Navigate to the /etc/mail.rc location.
  2. Edit the file to add the SMTP server settings.

    For example, set smtp=<Your_SMTP_Server_Hostname>:<SMTP_SERVER_PORT>

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