Quoth Dan Kappus on Wed, Sep 13, 2000:
> In the version of the documentation
> packaged with the stock Debian distrbution,
Which means that it doesn't belong here.
> -v This option has exactly the same effect as -d1; it
> causes Exim to be standard error file. In particular,
> if an SMTP connection is made, the SMTP dialogue is shown.
It seems that they forgot to insert \& at the beginning of the
line in the man page source. Note that I don't have Debian and
therefore can't see the man page source (and can't be bothered to
download it).
> how should this read?
Read the spec document.
# -v This option has exactly the same effect as -d1; it causes Exim to be
# 'verbose' and produce some output describing what it is doing on the
# standard error file. In particular, if an SMTP connection is made, the
# SMTP dialogue is shown.
Vadik.
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