On Mon 19 May 2014 at 17:40:46 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Do you mean something more than:
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -v $recipient
> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . which is the
> > address to which the test message is sent, e.g.
>
> So are you talking about something more than above or what?
Jonathan Dowland writes:
> Oops. I forgot you have to provide an address on the command line, which is
> the
> address to which the test message is sent, e.g.
>
>> sudo /usr/sbin/exim4 -v j...@debian.org
>
>> Using -d and sudo I get a heap of interesting info but am not allowed
>> to send anythi
Brian writes:
> On Mon 19 May 2014 at 07:30:23 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Brian writes:
>>
>> > There is an implication here that you think exim (or sendmail) is to be
>> > manipulated directly. That is not the case. It is a daemon which listens
>> > and which deals with mail *which is sen
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:19:53PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> What version does that for you?
> Here is is: Exim version 4.82 #3 built 12-Apr-2014 14:20:29
Exim version 4.80 #3 built 02-Jan-2013 19:40:22
> When I try it, either as my user or root I get lots of info especially
> with -d, but a
Jonathan Dowland writes:
> (as superuser) /usr/sbin/exim4 -v
> (type message)
> ^D
>
> this gives me the entire dialogue with the remote SMTP server from the POV of
> my smarthost. It should for you, too, I hope. If you supply -d instead of -v
> (-d implies -v as well) you get a lot more output.
On Mon 19 May 2014 at 07:30:23 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Brian writes:
>
> > There is an implication here that you think exim (or sendmail) is to be
> > manipulated directly. That is not the case. It is a daemon which listens
> > and which deals with mail *which is sent from a client*. The cl
Hi Harry,
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:32:26AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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 wha
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:09:23PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> It's certainly not a "drop-in replacement" in terms of the configuration
> files, etc. But it was designed with a high degree of compatibility with
> sendmail, and from an end-user's standpoint (once it's up and running),
> there's n
Brian writes:
> There is an implication here that you think exim (or sendmail) is to be
> manipulated directly. That is not the case. It is a daemon which listens
> and which deals with mail *which is sent from a client*. The client
> interacts with Debian's exim and exim, if the setup is sane, p
On Mon 19 May 2014 at 00:32:26 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I understand one can send messages with exim directly from the command
> line like sendmail but could not find any examples of that.
There is an implication here that you think exim (or sendmail) is to be
manipulated directly. That is no
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 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.
>
> Just as a matter of curiosity, why aren't yo
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 ho
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
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