newbie seeks help on sound and mail.

["G. Sagar" <brijes@giasbma.vsnl.net.in>]

I recently installed debian 3.0  My questions are:

1. How do i configure my sound card in debian. I have opti.

2. Mails: how do i send , receive and filter mails so that they go to
appropriate folders eg: all mails from debian mailing list to the "Debian"
folder, so on and so forth. Also, i'd like to compose several messages off
line and send them all in one shot when i log on to the net. Someone
suggested a combination of mutt, smail and procmail. I didnt understand.
Please help.

TIA.

Sagar.