Hi I have a 486 Box, 33Mhz, 16Mb Ram. Would it be possible to install a Dos mail server on it. A mail server that retrieves mail from my ISP's pop3 account, stores it on the 486, and when i open outlook on my pc (the Win XP one)my mail is retrieved from it. In simple terms it lies between my PC and my ISP's mail server. Cheers

You are asking a lot here: A DOS TCP/IP program to retrieve POP3 e-mail in a format to be retrieved later by a inter-computer connection by Windows XP to be read by 'Outlook Express' More to the point will your ISP communicate with such a program? This would seem to me to be hard to achieve, I hope I am wrong and that some solution is out there. As a matter of interest why would you want to do such a thing in the first place? When FREE Windows 9x/XP Anti-Virus and E-Mail Filtering Software such as AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com/) can filter messages for you. Please reply with a message to let us all know we are on the right track...

Well yes I think you are right. The reason I want to do this is because I have a 486 machine which i want to insert in my network to serve as something. My other ideas was to make it act as a file server. I will not store any large files but just some word and excel files. Would this at least be possible? Thanks