Re: exim?

["Kevin Easton" <s3159795@student.anu.edu.au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jardine" <blu@gennes>
To: "V.Suresh" <sureshv@softhome.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: exim?


> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:01:27PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote:
> > I am a dialup internet user. While I was using SuSE, i had complete
control
> > over sendmail. I used to run 'sendmail -q -v' to see the mails being
sent
> > to my isp's server using smarthost.
> > Now, with exim, I run 'runq -v', and all exim says is a pid number, and
exits.
> > How do I make exim more verbose, and I want to actually see the mail
transfer
> > over my console. Help.
>
> I don't know what sort of information you want but I run
>
> watch 'tail /var/log/exim/mainlog'

...or just "tail -f /var/log/exim/mainlog"
(-f means tail doesn't exit, and shows you anything new added to the end of
the file, as it's written).

    - Kevin.

>
> to follow the progress of outgoing mail.
>
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