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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140519131003.gb20...@bryant.redmars.org
