[gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail

[Antoine]

Hi,
I am trying to get php to send an email and am completely lost. It seems 
as though I had it working on an mdk box at work today, cos I got the 
messages on my yahoo account, but now I am trying to set up a similar 
thing at home I am getting nowhere. I have never done anything apart 
from setting up pop/smtp servers in gui mail clients and once in a 
networking class we sent an email via telnet.
Having done the extremely simple cl mail sending I was under the 
impression that this would be simple!
I just can't work out why it is so difficult... first of all ssmtp was 
blocking everything. So I uninstall and install postfix. I try to get 
postfix going but get lots of abusive messages about it not liking 
certain parameters (the default php ones). Now I read the ssmtp man page 
and ask myself - why shouldn't this work? All I want to do is send a 
simple little email - if telnet can do it then this can...
Now I reinstall ssmtp and nothing is working. From mutt, sendmail (see 
below) and the php script I get the below.

tux ~ # sendmail antt@localhost
hithere

sendmail: Cannot open mail:25

I don't want to do ANYTHING but have php send emails. I don't really 
care about security (for the moment) and really just want it to work 
without thinking about it! Can someone give me some advice?
Cheers
Antoine
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