From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 14:28:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BC71065674 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:28:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14878FC13 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so976904gyg.13 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:28:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=qbGa68SPgMzR80/OwljdyZa9vOXmZijlxoAvImv5iIw=; b=COFqfoIDf1uXlny55l/V1qJxobJLyidhulnGlxR0+ez08L2BQ4EDpOJ9Rdwn3AzSfz boPOPi9O/LNazQBvJEWDku1b727wETFlJm9bo+C55BHnN96PnxeBpj30HAwUur9yuFn4 HmWNRfCK/dUHEPoyztO7FbwJtVsN6zmeUml3M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=n9OJFYVwyf6S/FNp4QaSDlyaBs4F2oZsvlocM94repjIliG9NKtuyglzzVdUO35hXh 69E1VzdiiE6V9fCcCO/3699JP4ohIbhvi7IrjHpTLNbfaiof467lHtfdFJl4eswJuZeM n2WYmxkbjBSaON6yR6dmv82U3H3RPvTDEMjHw= Received: by 10.224.28.209 with SMTP id n17mr1353372qac.327.1279808900216; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:28:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.183.211 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:28:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100722095253.38994437@scorpio> References: <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <20100722112643.GA1570@ei.bzerk.org> <20100722095253.38994437@scorpio> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0300 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:28:21 -0000 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 > krad 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@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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube