ipopd is your standard default. I'd go for uw-imapd-ssl and ipopd-ssl myself. :) looking at /etc/services should tell you what ports, but: smtp 25 pop2 109 pop3 110 imap2 143 imap3 220 imaps 993 pop3s 995 ssmtp 465 Set your firewall to allow pop3 and imap2 from localhost only, allow pop3s and imaps from the outside world. Some things like webmail need to hit up pop3 or imap over the loopback interface, that's the reason for localhost only. Everyone else uses SSL. (And do your webmail with apache-ssl, other wise you defeat the purpose of allowing only imaps and pop3s.) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "We can learn much more from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys." --William Arthur Ward