I've known for a long while that there was something strange about sending mail via my ISP. They have made it clear in that they do not require or use TLS. It occurs to me that perhaps my computer does not have installed the appropriate certs to function with TLS. How would I ever have known they were missing if they were not being used? So maybe their goofyness has allowed me to miss something that I was doing something wrong from way back when I first got started in Debian in about Y2K. Certs are used for https and these must be on the computer because it manages to connect to my banks (2) , but maybe the ones needed to do SMTP are some different? How can I check. I have found some instructions for using gmail as a smart host and I'm trying to follow them, but things are not working. When I press the 'y' key in mutt to send an email, the message 'sending...' displays in the bottom line, but it stays there for many minutes when it once would accept an email is just a few seconds. How can I find out what is happening during that time? Is there some debug tool?
Thoughts or suggestions? -- Paul
