Ofcourse you can go fo either the most simple setup or a more flexible one. Jeff is looking for a simple setup which would, in my humble opinion, probably be some MUA (e.g. Mozilla) fetch mails directly from your POP3 and IMAP accounts and sending mail through your ISP's mailserver. Nate described a much more flexible setup which I, in fact, have. In my setup, fetchmail fetches my mail from various POP3 accounts and delivers it through Exim and procmail to the proper mailboxes. The courier-imap server provides access to the mailboxes, giving me both location and MUA independence. My reasons for wanting those two capabilities is that I want a text based client (Mutt) when on the road and without proper mouse and keyboard and a GUI client (KMail, Ximian Evolution, SquirrelMail) when at my dockingstation. Ofcourse I can send you my config files and a more detailed description of my setup if you'd like. In addition, it is wise to install a mailserver on your local machine if only because lots of daemons would like to use it to tell you things. Auke -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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