hi.
im setting up mutt as an email client. getting fetchmail working w/ it was a breeze but im having some troubles with sendmail. the thing is that sendmail is running fine and i can send emails but since im using my own smtp server and sending from my isp (@adelphia.net) without it ever even going through the isp, i am basically forging the email address. without completely learning to configure sendmail (that thing is huge) how can i get sendmail to take any outgoing message it gets from mutt and send it to mail.abs.adelphia.net:25 (my isp's smtp server) which will then take care of delivering the message the proper way.

thank's in advance.

In your sendmail.cf file there should be a section similiar to:

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS

Change the 'DS' line so that it points to the relay that you want it to use... so it would look like:

DSmail.abs.adelphia.net

(it is important that you do not put any spaces in that line)

Then restart sendmail and see what happens

thank you, it goes through my ISP now. the sendmail configuration was a little intimidating.

Sendmail is supposed to be intimidating. I might suggest that you take a look at postfix (to replace sendmail). Personally, I find it much easier to use.

http://www.postfix.com/