Having just spent several hours doing some basic setup on a new WordPress blog, I can safely agree with the masses that it is indeed an excellent, well-written program. Even the most tech-inept amongst us would likely have no problem getting the software up and running.
Which is probably why I had a problem, and it had me initially cursing the name of WordPress.
My e-mail server sits on a different box, which means that I need to configure the e-mail functionality of my site to access this server via SMTP.