Adding Mail with Exim - Start and Test the Mail Server
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The server should be started and tested. Exim accepts most sendmail command line options.
Start Exim using the become daemon and reasonable queue processing options.
# /usr/local/exim/bin/exim -bd -q30m |
Verify the daemon is running and listening to port 25.
# ps aux | grep exim
exim 7768 0.0 0.1 3052 1016 ? S 11:33 0:00 /usr/local/exim/bin/exim
# netstat -l | grep smtp
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN |
Connect to the server using telnet and send a test email message from within the network.
# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 server.example.com ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:46:15 -0500
EHLO example.com
250-server.example.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250 HELP
MAIL FROM: root@example.com
250 OK
RCPT TO: root@example.com
250 Accepted
DATA
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
TO: root@example.com
FROM: root@example.com
SUBJECT: test message
Test Message
.
250 OK id=1DAsiQ-0003Hn-PP
QUIT
221 server.example.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host. |
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