Re: tracing (logging, snooping) kmail interactions with mail server

Hi Randolph,   
   
just use tcpdump or any other network sniffer   
   
tcpdump -n -s 0 -X port 25 or port 110 or port 143 or port 993 or port 995 
 
and man tcpdump  
to understand the output (: 
 
hth 
sebastian 
  
"W. Randolph Franklin" <wrfranklin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:     
> Hi,    
>     
> How can I watch kmail 1.8's interactions with the mail server when it    
> is trying to send or receive mail?   Is there a verbose or snoop    
> switch, or something simpler than a packet tracer?    
>     
> I'm trying to get kmail working with gmail.   Sometimes it works,    
> sometimes it doesn't.    I don't know if the problem is with me, with    
> kmail, with gmail, or with my ISP.   Something appears to be hanging.     
> At the moment, kmail doesn't even return when I click 'check what the    
> server supports' altho it used to.    
>     
>   This is really frustrating.     
>     
> Thanks.    
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