Re: set higher verbosity in exim4 output
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 what is happening in smtp conversation.
I have found https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/TestingExim to be quite a useful
reference.
> 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.
More generally the command-line tool 'swaks' is great for debugging the client
end of an SMTP conversation. However I guess you need to see the server end, or
more specifically the server's logic for accepting/rejecting/delaying mail.
Is your exim install the smarthost in the above?
> 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?
(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.
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