Sorry folks, I got waylayed for a few hours and more to go so just going to clear up the part about the smtp conversation by including the whole thing ... I guess I was a little overzealous with the snippage.
I'll be back with more details unless I've bent the goodwill of this list too far. I did already get what I came for... the snipped to use mimedefang in quick and dirty way... Thanks for that: Smtp shows both my machine as message leaves and ISP localhost response. I'm running a local sendmail MTA on a single user linux home box: sending like this:\n -> echo "some message" |mail -v -s " reader_0624223044" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 reader.local.lan ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.6/8.13.4; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:30:46 -0500 >>> EHLO reader.local.lan 250-reader.local.lan Hello reader.local.lan [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-EXPN 250-VERB 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP >>> VERB 250 2.0.0 Verbose mode >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=70 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 2.1.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> DATA 250 2.1.5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 050 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Connecting to smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com via relay... 050 220 smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ESMTP 050 >>> EHLO reader.local.lan 050 250-smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com 050 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XYMCOOKIE 050 250-PIPELINING 050 250 8BITMIME 050 >>> AUTH LOGIN [snipped authorization -ed hp] 050 235 ok, go ahead (#2.0.0) 050 >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AUTH=<> 050 250 ok 050 >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 050 >>> DATA 050 250 ok 050 354 go ahead 050 >>> . 050 250 ok 1151206277 qp 9217 050 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sent (ok 1151206277 qp 9217) 250 2.0.0 k5P3UkSZ015934 Message accepted for delivery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent (k5P3UkSZ015934 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] >>> QUIT 221 2.0.0 reader.local.lan closing connection _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

