Re: [exim] SMTP Problem

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users @ exim. org
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP Problem
Tugdual de Lassat wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having a problem using exim 4.51, when trying to send mails from a
> windev program to a list of email adress. (it currently blocks to the third
> sender, and doesn't process any message)
>
> exim sends me constantly following log in mainlog:
> 2005-06-20 18:42:33 SMTP call from
> anantes-154-1-15-216.w81-53.abo.wanadoo.fr (Troti) [81.53.66.216] dropped:
> too many nonmail commands (last was "RSET")
>
> I would like to log all smtp activity (commands (EHLO, RSET) and server
> response) in a file i could read to try and understand problem (as it uses
> classical windows smtp process, it could come from spaces in commands, and
> would like to check this), but don't know how to do this, could anybody help
> me, by showing me how to do this ...


I'd suggest a packet-sniffer utility, preferably with
TCP and SMTP decode capability. Ethereal is a decent one;
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ethereal/

Cheers,
    Jeremy