gentoo

[Lang Hurst <lang tharin com>]

I've been a longtime balsa user and am a huge fan.  Recently I've tried 
out the gentoo Gnu/Linux distro.  I'm very impressed with it.  I've 
managed to get most of my web apps and other configured and working. 
 The only application that I can't get to work is Balsa.  This is a HUGE 
hurdle for me.  I know the other MUA's out there, but I'm about to 
switch back to Debian due to this.  This is more of a gentoo problem 
than a balsa problem, but I'm getting no help on the gentoo side.  When 
running autoconf, it quits with a esmtp error.  Yet I've installed 
libestmp both from the gentoo install (`emerge libesmtp`) and 
downloading the latest source and doing it by hand.  Then trying to 
install balsa through the emerge tool, or by downloading the source, I 
still get the esmtp failure.  Does anyone know how to get around this? 
 Thanks for any reply.

Regards,
Lang