newbie seeks help on sound and mail.

I recently installed debian 3.0 My questions are: 1. How do i configure my sound card in debian. I have opti. 2. Mails: how do i send , receive and filter mails so that they go to appropriate folders eg: all mails from debian mailing list to the "Debian" folder, so on and so forth. Also, i'd lik

KDE problem.

Ok here goes : I installed kde as follows : 1. qt 2. kdesupport 3. kdelibs 4. kdebase The installation was fine. Then i edited /etc/profile and added : PATH=$PATH:/opt/kde/bin KDEDIR=/opt/kde export KDEDIR Next i created a .xinitrc file in my /root dir and added startkde in it. I logged out, lo