Subject: Help!

From: Andy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:56:49 +0000

Hello,

It is possible to get unix Pine to trace how it sends the mails..

e.g. the route they were sent?

Just curious...

If you can help give me a mail!

Thanks

Andy

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:23:37 -0600 (CST)

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> If you can help give me a mail!

I don't know of a way to get pine to show this information, but if you leave
the smtp-server setting blank, which would tell pine to pass each outgoing
message to the system's mail-delivery-agent (probably sendmail), then you
could view /var/log/messages to find out where the message was delivered to. 
This is assuming that you would have access to that file, and that
/etc/syslog.conf has the following line (or something similar) in it:

*.=info;*.=notice				/usr/adm/messages

Then you might want to try using a util like dig to "dig theaddressyoufound"
to find out the path your system uses (might be different each time
depending on network situations) to get to that address - if it doesn't go
there directly.

Then again, sendmail might be configured to send all mail to a designated
system (your ISP for example), in which case it went there and only there.

BTW, you can also increase the output that sendmail shows to include
DETAILED smtp negotiations, etc. which I'm assuming would also go in
/var/log/messages (/usr/adm/messages, /usr/log/messages, whatever it's
called).

  Jason

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