ok, I've been searching some of the online docs and I'm not really close to a solution here. I'd like to setup and run a home based pop3 server to operate in concert with my smtp server (which is already working). so far, the mandrake website seems of little help. anyone happen to have a solution to this? it would make my life easier if I could check my e-mail from inside the lan on a box instead of logging into the gateway box, then using pine to check my mail (its a hassle). Technomage -- I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6