Oliver von Bueren wrote:
>
> It's not that difficult, just a way to debug your configuration
> efficiently. I'll give you a short step-by-step intro of how to do it.
> What it does is, you can enter what normally the MUA (message user
> agent) or MTA (message transfer agent) does. That way, you can see
> straight away what exim does with it. It does this by listing the
> internal steps it performs and by printing the answers it would send to
> the remote end. You then can enter the commands.
> I don't include all the stuff exim prints out, just the session-relevant
> bits. Of curse, you have to substitute the ip and email addresses with
> your real world data.
>
> If you start exim on the "console/ssh/telnet" session like this:
> # exim -bh 192.168.1.100
> 220 server.domain.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:48:12 +0100
> HELO my.domain.com
> 250 server.domain.com Hello my.domain.com [192.168.1.100]
> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 250 OK
> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 250 Accepted
> RSET
> 250 Reset OK
> QUIT
> 221 server.domain.com closing connection
> #
>
> All the lines starting with the number are from exim, the rest is what
> you enter.
>
> Here the interesting bit will be after you type RCPT TO.... All the
> tests exim does are listed out including its conclusions.
>
> Does that help? If not, I think you should consider Peter's advice and
> read through some of the documentations get the exim4 book.
>
> Oliver
>
>
Yes, I am familiar with using telnet to test mail delivery. As mentioned -
Its the ACL I dont understand.
--
View this message in context:
http://www.nabble.com/Drop-all-traffic-unless-authenticated-users-OR-specific-IP---tp15086940p15088486.html
Sent from the Exim Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
--
## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users
## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/
## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
