Help with setting up a mail server

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100
> krad <kraduk at 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 at mail ~]$ ls -al /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  202361 Jul 22 17:23 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
[wash at mail ~]$ /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -bv odhiambo at 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 at mail ~]$ /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -d -bv odhiambo at gmail.com
sendmail: illegal option -- d
sendmail: illegal option -- d
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]

[wash at mail ~]$ exim -bt odhiambo at gmail.com
odhiambo at 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:-)


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