Harry Putnam grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Never used exim but trying to get it setup since the latest version of > sendmail seems to have some problems I don't understand on a new debian > install. > > I've pounded along googling and scanning the exim documentation on > board for a couple of hours tonight... but I have yet to find a simple > straight forward explanation of how to get more verbose output so I can > tell what is happening in smtp conversation. > > Running mailx -v email@address <somefile only shows enough to learn > that the message was `delayed'. Not very helpful.... I want to see what > is happening at the smarthost regarding authentication. > > I understand one can send messages with exim directly from the command > line like sendmail but could not find any examples of that. > > the exim manpages appears to be devoid of basic examples. > > And apparently my google strings are not clever enough to unearth some > examples. > > How would I send a message directly with exim4 from the command line and > at the same time set verbosity to a much higher level? > > I saw the -d switch but no example of sending from cmdline, to try it > with.
Just as a matter of curiosity, why aren't you trying Postfix instead?
It was pretty much designed as a drop-in replacement for Sendmail, so if
you already know the sendmail options that you need to do what you want,
you could probably just provide them to the postfix-supplied sendmail
program.
--Dave
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