Testing

Now that you have installed everything, they should all be just working fine. Setup a domain, create a user account and check. To log in via email client apps you must use full email address as the username and the client must be capable of and enabled for smtp authentication.

In addition, you can test all parts of ECM2 via command line:

EXIM (SMTP)

Telnet via llocalhost to see if Exim is functioning correctly:

telnet localhost 25

If everything is OK, it should respond with something like this:

220 FULL_HOSTINFO ESMTP Exim 4.62+ppsw+1 Mon, 29 May 2006 12:15:47 -0700

close telnet connection '^]' (control closing bracket) than type quit.
telnet> quit

COURIER POP & IMAP

And now we can test POP and IMAP one after the other:

telnet localhost 110

If everything is OK, something like this will appear:

+OK Hello there.

close telnet connection '^]' (control closing bracket) than type quit.
telnet> quit

telnet localhost 143

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.

close telnet connection '^]' (control closing bracket) than type quit.
telnet> quit

CLAM AV

Let's just check if the necessary processess for Clam AV are running:

ps -auxww | grep clam | grep -v grep

It should show 2 processes similar to these two lines below:

root 288 /usr/local/clamav/sbin/clamd
clamav 291 /usr/local/clamav/bin/freshclam -d -c 24 -l /var/log/clam-upd

SPAMASSASSIN

First stop SpamAssassin if it's already running:

ps -auxww | grep spam | grep -v grep
kill -2 <process-id>  

(replace <process-id> with the "root" process number that shows the startup line...)

Start up spamd in debug mode:

spamd -D -q

open an other terminal window and run this spam test:

echo -e "From: user\nTo: user\nSubject: Test\n\n" | spamc -u '$GLOBAL'

if the response includes 'required=5.0' as shown in the next line, your up and running!

X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS

close both terminal window (terminate them) and in a new one start spamd again:

/usr/bin/spamd -d -x -q -Q -L -u clamav --socketpath=/tmp/spamd

MYSQL

ps -auxww | grep mysqld | grep -v grep