(Im retyping this as my track pad submitted
1/2 thru my post!)

I was saying, as I worked thru the third installment, I sent a test mesg to my internet email account and lo and behold it worked!

so now Im curious - how did that work? I havent configured any smtp settings with mail (only exposure thus far is thru this series) - does it talk to the local subnet's smtp server by default (ie that of my adsl provider?) I have sent an email to a broader address (outside this ISP and ill see how that works too...)

Cheers

Adrian
london