Hi Gena: Well, the client doesn't matter much, so if there's something you're used to using on a shell or other unix setup then you can probably go right on using it. I've been using pine for 6 years, so I use that. Fetchmail is a good way to deal with pulling down mail from a dialup ISP. I also use this here. Configuring it is pretty straight-forward once you know how. The mail transport question is quite a vexing one. It seems a lot of slackwarers up here use sendmail. I use exim on debian and I think that's now the debian default. Either way, you should be able to get help from folks up here or on the reflector if you get stuck. Configuring mail transport agents can be a bit of a fiddle until you actually get it working. I STRONGLY recommend setting up your MTA before getting fetchmail up and running, for 2 reasons. Firstly, you won't be able to reply until you do this, and secondly, fetchmail uses your MTA to actually deliver your mail to you, so you need it to be working first. Let us know if we can help you further. Geoff.
