[CLUE-Tech] Sendmail configuration questions

[David Snyder]

I have a little bit of a tricky email issue here.  Mindspring DSL is 
locked down so that it will not allow any outgoing SMTP traffic from 
anything other than their own mailserver.

This was done to thrwart spammers from using their dailups/DSL lines for 
their black art.  Unfortunately it is also preventing me from having 
logs sent to my main email address and also keeps me from using the 
command line mail program.

I have been mucking with the /etc/sendmail.mc --> m4 
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf --> service sendmail restart 
thing and trying the "SMARTHOST" feature to no avail.

Without the "SMARTHOST" lines, I get:
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Dialups/open relays blocked. Contact 
<openrelay at abuse.earthlink.net>

With it, I get:
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 rejected: cannot route to sender 
<snyderd at Popeye.SnydersWeb.com>

I have been hunting for a good solution to this for a day or so, checked 
groups.google.com, google.com, and the list archive and have not been 
able to find a concise answer to this problem.

I have a feeling that part of the solution will involve a smarthost line 
but I believe I am missing something or other.

Anyone here have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

David Snyder
http://www.snydersweb.com