-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You can still run tasksel and check desktop in the list you find there. All is not lost. As for getting mail from your pop server and sending it through a remote smtp server, you will need to install fetchmail or getmail. Either one of those will retrieve mail from a pop server. You will also need to configure your local mail server as a smarthost which will relay the mail you send out to the remote smtp server of your choice. Maybe soneone who has done this can point you to the correct docs to accomplish this, but I can point you to tldp.org and linuxquestions.org to get you started. Good luck, Lorenzo - -- Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD0tgvG9IpekrhBfIRAgIpAJ45UCAzjn7prcdj1vKL5k2KKClEMQCfVE+d r0y37ecqNgiqVAVq4vUif78= =iR5h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----