When you say your server "connects" you to the Internet, do you mean via iptables? Provided you've got mailboxes in /var/spool/mail, you'll want to install Cyrus OR QPopper. QPopper is for POP3 clients. Cyrus is for IMAP. It all depends on what clients you want to support. I've never used Thunderbird, but most modern mail clients talk both POP3 and IMAP. For web-based access to email, I've been running SquirrelMail successfully for years now. I believe it will only talk IMAP and not POP3. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:John@DMJ-Consultancy.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:39 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Configuring a mail system I am about to embark on configuring a mail system across one server and two workstations but am confused and need to ensure that I am pointing in the right direction. My server runs SuSE 9.2 pro and is configured for NIS, NFS, Samba, Apache and DNS. It provides my connection to the Internet and hosts my web site. My legacy XP workstation runs Mozilla Thunderbird and currently connects direct to my ISP, via the above server, to send mail by SMTP and receive by POP3. My portable will be used to access the post office by kmail when at home and via the Internet when away. I have configured postfix on the server, so should be able to send and receive mail by SMTP. Presumably, adding fetchmail will allow me to read the ISP. I now want to connect my two workstations and this is where the confusion really starts. Reading through the SuSE Bible, it seems I need QPopper and Cyrus running on the server. Can anyone point me in the right direction to connect Thunderbird and kmail into what I have so far and indicate how to make the post office available through my web site? Any guidance will be much appreciated TIA John -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com