On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:50 +0100, Guido Leisker wrote: > > I have tried squirrelmail too. But i found no way to tell the programm > to auth at the smtp-server of my provider! Yeah - I don't use squirrelmail to send mail. It probably could be patched fairly easily to use my service providers smtp - but I generally just use my providers webmail to send when I'm not using a proper client. > > You use you own Server? Thats a bit tricky i think, you need own dns > entries and so on. Thats all a bit to much for newbies (like newbie and me) > Don't need your own dns server - mine sits on a local lan, not a real IP. Now - I do happen to run a caching nameserver (on the same box) that resolves hostnames on my local lan, but you can also just put entries into the /etc/hosts files instead. That's what I use to do.