One real good way to see where things are going wrong is to put exim in
debugging mode on an alternate port. (let's see sendmail do that ;} )
You can do this using
exim -bd -oX 2525 -d9 2>&1 | tee some file
Then telnet to port 2525 and fake an smtp conversation to see what exim
is doing. It will show you the searchs, lookups and expansions it does,
making it pretty easy to test your rules.
On Wed, Mar 18/98, Paul Mansfield <paulm@???> wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a new backup MX machine, and mail will be inbound only (i.e.
> mail from arbitrary domains to specific hosts).
>
> I've got an external file to specify what hosts can do ETRN etc, got the
> anti-spam stuff to work...
>
> but want an external file to specific the list of domains which are allowed
> to receive email, i.e. something like
>
> relay_domains = /opt/exim/etc/accept-domains
>
> where accept-domains contains a list or DBM database with entries like
> uk.psi.com, psi.net.uk, and many more (perhaps as many as 1000 or so).
>
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