I've got basically the same situation, except I live in Memphis and use the Time Warner Roadrunner system.
First of all, to send outgoing mail with exim, select the "smarthost" configuration, and enter [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s outgoing SMTP server as the smarthost. Also, make sure that you enter 'localhost' as one of the local domains. The only scary part here is the "From:" address. I probably didn't do it "The right way", but I just added this to my .muttrc file (you are using mutt as your mail reader, aren't you? :-): my_hdr From: Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Secondly, you need to setup a .fetchmailrc file for fetchmail. Fetchmail is the preferred way to get email from your POP3 account to your mail files in ~/Mail (or wherever). Fetchmail delivers mail to the user who runs it, so don't worry about mwagnon1 vs mwagnon; it doesn't matter. Here's my .fetchmailrc poll pop-server protocol POP3: user smpitts password ***** Where pop-server is the Roadrunner POP3 server and everything else is self-explanatory. The first time you check email, use "fetchmail -v" to watch fetchmail and make sure it runs right. When you are confident, then use "fetchmail -d 600" to poll every ten minutes. Thirdly, You need to sort your emails. Exim comes with a builtin sorting mechanism. Here are some rules from my .forward file for the debian lists: -- begin .forward # Exim filter <-- do not remove or modify this line! if error_message then finish endif if $h_Resent-From: contains "debian-user" then save $home/mail/debian-user elif $h_Resent-From: contains "debian-devel" then save $home/mail/debian-devel endif -- end .forward That's really about it. I would suggest starting out with mutt by copying /etc/Muttrc to ~/.muttrc and editing it from there. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org