Why write your own problem? Get the sendmail sources from any number of ftp sites, modify them a little, recompile, and use your own sendmail instead of your OS's for delivery. Then, you can keep limited logs for debugging in a place you can delete them when you're done. The only catch is that running as you instead of root, you can't listen on port 25.
Two problems: 1) Aren't telnets logged, at least at the site you telnet to? If I "telnet xxxx smtp", doesn't the site I telnet to have it in a log? I can't control that, and that could identify me. 2) Sendmail (at least on our system) drops mail into a queue owned by root, and inaccessible to anyone else. So without root privs your sendmail may not function. (I know because I've tried). I'm no UNIX guru, just a hacker, so if someone knows more by all means correct me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Breton pbreton@cs.umb.edu PGP key by finger =========================================================================