Thanks Jamie, I have now got kmail up and running.  Also thanks for the lilo 
help.

Kent

On Sunday 16 September 2001 18:11, you wrote:
> Kent,
>       Hi, Im combining several replies into one....
>
> Kent,
>          Im currently using kmail, its grown to be quite a usable program,
> and doesnt seem to launch outlook based viri.... It has an address book,
> and if your using KDE already, then you probably have it.
>          There are a lot of email clients that run under linux, too many
> for me to try listing.. My personal fav's are pine, kmail, and sometimes
> netscape messanger (big fat pig of a client though...)
>          As jacob mentioned, procmail is a great filtering tool, The code
> is a bit difficult at first to learn, but quite versitile, and powerful. I
> dont use grub, but i do use lilo, and am fairly well versed in lilo.conf (a
> little better now that pat hip'd be to password protection)
>
>
>          Ok so, lilo conf is pretty straight forward, there are basicly 2
> sections
> (its not too obvious, but there is a global section, and a section for the
> individual systems that are installed...
>
> heres my local box's lilo as an example... (note.. comments are not part of
> the file...)
>
> ########### this part is the global section #########
> boot=/dev/hda   < -- boot device!
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> default=linux   <--------- this line sets the default LABEL to load
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> lba32    <-- I have a LBA based hard disk...
> prompt    <-- prompt the user which os to load
> timeout=50  <---- how long to wait before loading the default os
> message=/boot/message-graphic
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> ######## below is the part that deals with each os you want to access
> ###### image=/boot/vmlinuz    <--- the kernel to load...
>         label=linux  <-- label, this can be whatever you want...
>         root=/dev/hda5  <-- what partition has the root filesystem
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=failsafe
>         root=/dev/hda5
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append=" failsafe"    <--- this is a feature... I never really use
> it read-only
> other=/dev/hda1        <--- this is a windows boot... pretty simple huh!
>         label=windows
>         table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/fd0
>         label=floppy
>         unsafe
> ############### end of jamie's lilo.conf ############
> There are a LOT of things you can do with lilo, this is just the basics,
> read: man lilo for details on all the groovy stuff you can do with lilo!
>
> Jamie
>
> On Sunday 16 September 2001 03:27 pm, you wrote:
> > Thanks.  I'll check these out and see how it goes.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> > At 01:50 PM 9/16/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > >On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:08:18PM -0700, Kent Loobey wrote:
> > >> What is a good linux email program?  Is there a linux email program
> > >> that supports filters, address books, etc.?
> > >
> > >procmail is a mail filter and much more.
> > >http://www.procmail.org/
> > >
> > >There are many good email programs, but I don't use address books,
> > >so as far as that goes, I don't know what to suggest.
> > >
> > >Personally, I like mutt.
> > >http://www.mutt.org/
> > >
> > >> Thanks.
> > >>
> > >> Kent
> > >
> > >--
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> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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