{"id":51359,"date":"2021-01-09T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=51359"},"modified":"2021-01-09T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:56:16","slug":"centos-exim-mail-server-sanity-check-testing-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/centos-exim-mail-server-sanity-check-testing-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"CentOS Exim Mail Server Sanity Check Testing Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CentOS Exim Mail Server Sanity Check Testing Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

To send an email often relies on a Mail Server and accompanying software and hardware and networking to support just such a Mail Server. Here at our Linux web server (CentOS) here at RJM Programming we oversee an Exim Mail Server we last talked about with CentOS Exim Advanced Configuration Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the normal case of events “exim”<\/a> does its job sending and receiving email related to email addresses ending in “@rjmprogramming.com.au” with little worry, and so we are usually not worried unduly concerning its running, but yesterday we had occasion to be curious, because to proceed with our coding we wanted to have an email “go through to the keeper” (so to speak)<\/font>. But they weren’t, and the issue concerned an email sent via PHP mail using a sender whose email address ended in “@rjmprogramming.com.au” so the Exim Mail Server comes into play (unlike a client email application mailto: type of email).<\/p>\n

We were using Ajax<\/a>\/FormData<\/a> techniques to send the email and according to error checking at this client end of things, “no worries”. PHP logs? No apparent issues. So what next?<\/p>\n

Thanks, Gooooooooggggggllllllee<\/a> led us to the incredibly useful send a testmail via exim – makandra Operations<\/a>, thanks, getting us to<\/a> …<\/p>\n


\n# exim -v rmetcalfe41@gmail.com
\nFrom: rmetcalfe@rjmprogramming.com.au
\nSubject: Foobar
\nText Text Text
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\nI like Pie!
\n<Command(Mac)\/Ctrl(Windows)+D>
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… the results of actions above helping us see what the issues were, holding up the email. Much later it (ie. the original email)<\/font> arrived, as well as …<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant CentOS Exim Advanced Configuration Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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CentOS Exim Advanced Configuration Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

There are two file resource aspects to watch out for regarding a web server hard disk storage …<\/p>\n