> > Did the telnet localhost 25, it answered but not sure I understood you > what I needed to do. > type all this in once connected, substituting as necessary & ignoring the comments in () helo mydomain.com (substitute a valid domain here) mail from: <someuser at validdomain.com> rcpt to: <youremailaddress at yourdomain.com> data From: someuser at validdomain.com to: youremailaddress at yourdomain.com subject: test (note blank line here) This is a test message .