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Ever since the dot com boom I've wanted to create a website. I remember endless sheets of papers with "wonderful" ideas that would allow me to quit my job and enjoy my free time. My problem was that I was never able to take any of these ideas to completion. There was always a new idea in the horizon, or a distraction like work, family, school, etc.

I'm a mechanical engineer by training, so I knew enough programming to be dangerous. I first learned PHP, then with the web 2.0 craze I tried ROR and failed miserably. Finally last year, I thought I would give it another try. This time I did some research, and found Django and Python. I worked through the tutorial and I was sold. Slowly but surly, I started programming, and learning. I bought the "Practical Django Projects" book which was a great resource and just kept at it when I could. It was like building a very complicated lego set, where I would build a section, come back to it, and keep building. Fast forward to a year later, and I have finally launched my first website from scratch. It's just ...

All I want to do is be able to use mutt to send e-mail. Exim is a huge convoluted mess to me. I got it configured a while back but I just reinstalled Debian and forgot to backup the exim config files before doing so nor can I find the simple tutorial I found at one. Is there a simple sendmail agent that I can just supply with SMTP servers, passwords and usernames? I never got exim working with multiple e-mail addresses either so added bonus for that.

Is there one out there? I currently use emesene, I'm just accustomed to the style of msn. But it can't seem to do this, is there a client out there that does?

A little background. I have Windows 7 installed on an internal 2 hdd 1 TB striped raid array and Mint installed on an internal 500 GB hdd independent of the array. I would like to install Debian over the Mint installation but whenever i get to the point of the installer to install grub, it fails. I'm guessing this is because the Windows MBR is on the raid array and from what I've read so far, grub and RAID have a hard time getting along. I'm wondering how do I get grub to behave? The Mint installation went along without a hitch and it recognized the MBR and added Windows to the grub conf. I no longer have Mint installed though as Debian was installed over it, except for grub. I've had to use the Windows disk twice already to restore the Windows MBR (via "bootrec.exe /fixmbr") so I can boot into Windows after the Debian installation failed.