On a number of occasions, I have used mailx -v to trouble shoot problems with Mail and Sendmail. Here's what I do.
#mailx -v supportATtopbloglists.com (hit enter)
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EOT
--Watch the output scroll--
mailx coupled with -v are very useful because they provide the verbose output of Sendmail. It shows the connection, session and disconnect. It's very useful for troubleshooting purposes (e.g. viewing IPs, DNS, mail configurations, version numbers, etc).
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2 comments:
Thanks! That actually was useful.
This is good .. thanks for the tip
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