On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:36:13AM -0400, Steve Davidson wrote: standard email clients but would also like to be able to ssh into a local box and read mail via a character terminal. I use a variety of OS platforms to provide email availability and I have found that either NetBSD or Linux is the easiest to deal with and since you already have Linux that would be the direction I would suggest. As much as I'd love to run a mail server on VMS, I would have to agree with Steve on this one. As to accessing mail from a terminal vi ssh, I do exactly that myself. What I have been doing is I run mutt locally on the mail server, but I've configured it to use IMAP to access the mail server. It has worked very well. -brian -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)