i have staff of about 10-15 members... they all need email addresses. the CP i have is CPanel3 the only way u can check mail u have to log into the CP...i didn't want my staff members having the cp log information so i signed up to bigmailbox.com free email service...they provides u with own email service like yahoo with your own domain for free! well that service has ended...we moved to a dedicated server last week...i need to get a email service going for my staff. can you suggest some software/scripts for me to look into?

My favorites are qmail, vpopmail for POP, qmailadmin for email management, sqwebmail or squirrelmail for webmail, and courier-imap for IMAP.

QMail: www.qmail.org
Everything else: www.inter7.com
Squirrelmail: www.squirrelmail.org

Actually, your users do not have to log into the control panel in order to check their mail if you're using cPanel. They can log in directly to webmail using

http://www.yourdomain.com:2095 or
http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail/

yes theres no need to check the mails from control panels

by default cpanel will get two webmails with cpanel ver4. you can access those @

http://www.yourdomain.com:2095 or
http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail/

or you can create your own alias and use that