Sendmail: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

Appendix G: Debug Classes

These are the debug classes for running Sendmail in debug mode ( -d).

Class

Type

Level

Description

0

General

1

Don't fork as often

4

Setting of $j, $w, $=w

15

Dump configuration file

44

Print argument vector

1

Envelope

1

Envelope sender

2

Exiting

1

Final exit status

5

Timers

4

Alarm tick

5

Event added; event cleared

6

Activity in alarm tick

6

Error notifications

1

Each error; returns to sender

5

dead.letter versus mail back error text

7

Queue file names

1

Created a new queue file name

2

used an existing queue file name

20

Trying a new queue file name

8

DNS

1

MX RR lookups; name canonicalization

9

More DNS

1

maphostname (for $[ and $])

2

(turn on resolver debugging [ KJS only])

10

Delivery

1

General trace; envelope dump

11

Mailers

1

Mailer open

12

Remotely visible names ( KJS only)

1

Before and after

2

Ruleset numbers of a mailer's S= and R=

13

Sending to recipient list

1

General

3

Checking for errors

4

errors-to whom? ( owner- xxx)

14

Headers

2

Headers with comma-separated lists

15

SMTP listener

1

Initialization; load average

2

Incoming connection

15

(turns on kernel socket debugging)

16

SMTP client

1

Outbound connection

14

(turns on...

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