Setting Up E-Mail

[RDK]

Folks....I have set up e-mail using this link: http://rpi.tnet.com/project/faqs/smtp

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sudo apt-get install ssmtp 
sudo apt-get install mailutils
sudo apt-get install mpack

and then configured it like this

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#
# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#

root=me@mydomain.com

# The full hostname
hostname=MyRasPi

AuthUser=me@gmail.com
AuthPass=myGmailpw
FromLineOverride=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES

#AuthUser=me@mydomain.com
#AuthPass=mypw
#mailhub=mail.mydomain.com:465

The above setup works and the test line

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echo "sample text" | mail -s "Subject" myid@hotmail.com

works with the note arriving at my Hotmail account.

But, in fact, I do not want to use Google's Gmail system. I have my own domain and mail server.
I modified the above ssmtp.conf to use the hash-ed out lines to replace the Gmail lines. When I use Outlook I have to configure my outgoing (SMTP) server "requires authentication" and needs to use SSL and port 465. When I now try the above mail command it just hangs and I have to control-C to get back to the command line prompt.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks...RDK