[and now for something a little less 'political']

I am setting up mutt on my laptop (low specs, so I want to use as many text 
based apps as possible). It gets mail from the pop server fine (specified one 
in the mutt config file). But when I send mail, it seems to want to send it 
thru the local MTA (in my case, sendmail). The problem is that I can't work 
out for the life of me how to get sendmail to pass the mail given to it 
locally on to an upstream smtp server. 

Does anyone speak /etc/sendmail.cf ? ;-)

I have never seen a config file such as this - obfusticated is an 
understatement. I only managed to find one place in there; "smtp client 
options" - I pointed it at my upstream ISP, but it doesn't seem to work.

Also, I understand it's not good to run sendmail if you don't have it properly 
configured (even if it was configured as an open relay though, for argument 
sake, it's behind a firewall). Still, this is my first time playing around 
with sendmail (or any MTA for that matter) and I'd like to learn good 
practices - advice from any sendmail wizards on the list would be most 
welcome :-)

Cheers,
  Gareth


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