Actually, you are looking for two questions in one. The MTA is actually what will send out the email and place it into you mailbox when it comes in. The two most popular are Sendmail and Qmail in that order. I recomend you consider Qmail as it is less likely to leave security holes. The other is what email program to use. Since I only use a single address most of the time I just use Pine. Now an option would be to setup a different account on your machine for the different email accounts. Then qmail can be configured to set you email address accordingly. But this makes you login to each account to check the mail for that account. That isn't so bad though as you can keep them all open and even do other things with virtual consoles. To use virtual consoles, you can press Alt and a function key. Most installations have 6 by default. Each console operated independantly from the others. Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net ------------------ Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now).