[ale] email email email

[Adrin Story]

I hate to start this again. BUT until I get my password sent to change 
my ale email and also look through the archives I have this age old 
problem.

I have changed internet providers after almost 10 years with the same 
ISP.  I was just tried of the dropped service and cost.  I wish I could 
have used something like speedfactory or speakeasy but I am to far away 
from the CO, by about 2,000 feet for the new higher speed connections.  
So bellsouth it is now.    Now the questions

I was using sendmail, fetchmail and netscape to do email.   But the 
after editing the sendmail.mc file and remaking sendmail.cf. I still 
can't email other accounts from the command line.  So perhaps I am 
missing something.  Thought all I had to do was change the smarthost 
setting?  I get a bounce back

(reason: 550 .net 022: Your current IP address is not allowed to relay to mindspring.com Solution: Connect using BellSouth Internet Service.)

I am assuming at this point sendmail will never work right. So I need a solution.  
I would like is to use my linux box as a email server LDAP? Have it download email from email accounts and put them in a system user account or accounts.  Then I could setup my own spam filters and blocks and have family use that email account. Would help me stop bad attachments in the future?

Perhaps this will move me that much closer to a PDC with SAMBA in the future.


by the way,  I understand that the netscape mailer works different.  I can email out and my from address has the correct email address of the old account. 

Adrin