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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.

I just don't understand why webcam and/or security camera stuff is still so difficult on Linux. All I want to do is setup a daemon that will monitor a camera or two, have it accessible over the web to pull down stills, and have it save video to disk in 5-15 minute blocks. I'm not interested in motion detection or alarms.

I just finished wasting 5 days on ZoneMinder and couldn't get it to do anything more than give me a black screen. I tried both a USB capture device and an IP camera. In both cases nothing but black. I also ended up trying 2 different computers.

In the end I've gone and installed Windoze which isn't what I really wanted to do since I was going to use this computer for other things. But WebcamXP will let me pull down stills on demand, and will write the video to files and start a new file every few minutes like I want.