I've decided to branch out and extend our use of LINUX by using it as a mail server> postfix seems to be istalled and i"ve set up the run level to start smtpd and smtp - and used yast to start imap and pop3. However, I cannot get our PC clients to connect to either pop3 or imap - despite trying various combinations of secure/not seure ssh or whatever. Clearly this is a case of that metaphysics rule that its always harder the first time you try it and once you can convince yourself that you have made the right settings it WILL work. The trouble is that I don't have that confidence. When I do ps -A (as root) I can see smtp things but no reference to imap or pop - whch rather bothers me. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School