Problem Solving
The sendmail program offers a few options that will help in locating and solving some mail delivery problems. Table 24-11 lists the available options.
Table 24-11. Options that help with problem solving
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Option name |
§ |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
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CheckAliases on page 982 |
Check RHS of aliases. |
|
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DoubleBounceAddress on page 1025 |
Errors when sending errors. | |
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LogLevel on page 1040 |
Set (increase) the logging level. |
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PostmasterCopy on page 1064 |
Extra copies of bounce messages (not V5 BSD). |
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Verbose on page 1117 |
Run in verbose mode. |
Other means to solve problems are described in Chapter 15 on page 530,
which discusses the -d debugging command-line switch, and
in Chapter 14 (specifically Log Transactions with -X on page 512),
which covers the -X traffic-logging command-line
switch.
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