Before going through the trouble of learning to configure sendmail, you may want to take a look at msmtp, which is a simple program that can deliver mail to multiple smtp servers. It is available as a DEbian package. Below, I pasted a sample ~/.msmtprc file that works with gmail. Best regards, Lukas account default host smtp.gmail.com auth on user your-gmail-address password your_gmail_password port 587 from desired-from-address tls on Gaijin writes ("Re: sending email with debian"): > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:20:19PM -0000, Keith Barrett wrote: > > Would like to be able to filter mail later but would like to get the sending > > sorted out first. > > You could do what I did and install sendmail (and all it's > support packages) and then read the masquerading howtos to learn how to > configure it all. Once you're masquerading as your ISP, you should have > few problems sending mail. Still don't know if you need to set up > procmail to handle address re-writes for other non-ISP mail accounts > tho. Haven't even tried that yet. > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >