Since everyone else is asking questions that are completely unrelated to Debian I'll do my bit and ask one that's only slightly related.
I've got Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 with the default (ie empty) config files. Here's the problem: 09:54:21</etc/init.d># ./smail restart Restarting mail transport agent: smail. 09:54:25</etc/init.d># !tel telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to cr275960-a. Escape character is '^]'. 220-cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com Smail-3.2.0.102 (#2 2000-Feb-23) ready at Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:54:28 -0700 (PDT) 220 ESMTP supported helo crdva1.bc.wave.home.com 550 You are not permitted to send mail What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. -chris