Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server Message-ID: <AANLkTimvpkpOZn2xijjULjvTPLekUG6RTYrTLgp7ADIJ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100722095253.38994437@scorpio> References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <AANLkTin-tBrCKAHqs37p3OhafNDNuiajdkTx5XcmTNZ0@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinhQQ_Wt9yhz_I2spTbqQlkrf0g1Vp_iZe1Z86d@mail.gmail.com> <20100722112643.GA1570@ei.bzerk.org> <AANLkTilfN-6v428g9pxwwp68STJmfFOi_KXiTD4uNHX5@mail.gmail.com> <20100722095253.38994437@scorpio>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100
> krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> articulated:
>
>
> > yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail
> is
> > not the same on exim (interactive prompt). You can probably get similar
> > output from sendmail, but with most things sendmail it is archaic and
> > obfuscated.
>
> With Postfix installed, using "sendmail -bv" works quite well.
>
With Postfix installed and configured or just installed? I just installed.
[wash@mail ~]$ ls -al /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 202361 Jul 22 17:23 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
[wash@mail ~]$ /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -bv odhiambo@gmail.com
postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or
directory
Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to <wash>.
[wash@mail ~]$ /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -d -bv odhiambo@gmail.com
sendmail: illegal option -- d
sendmail: illegal option -- d
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
[wash@mail ~]$ exim -bt odhiambo@gmail.com
odhiambo@gmail.com
router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [209.85.227.27] MX=5
host alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.39.27] MX=10
host alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.53.27] MX=20
host alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.95.27] MX=30
host alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.65.27] MX=40
I cannot post the output that comes with -d here, it's so much that trying
to feed the trawl will get it chocked:-)
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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