How about mailing list software like Majordomo or Mailman? Being able to install and configure SpamAssassin is an essential trick. I'd advise staying away from web interfaces that perform administrative tasks (like webmin). Reason being, I believe the abstration layer prevents you from best understanding the command line method for the tasks, which is required in my book. If you ever end up an environment where you are admining boxes via command line (which is quite common) you'll be glad you know how. Maybe you could install some php wiki software too. phpWiki is decent.

thought of one more. Gallery is pretty decent (though I loathe their use of table tags)

Thanks for the ideas, friend. I think I might actually use a wiki, so I was thinking about that. Gallery looks cool, too. If I can master that I might use it on Adrian Christian Church You're right about the command line. I need to learn that stuff. I'm trying to use it more, but I just need to force myself. I still haven't made my way through an entire book on Linux, so yes, I need to rtfm. Thanks for the ideas. I may have more questions later.

Gallery would probably go well with the church site, because there is a mechanism that supposedly makes it easy to plug into postnuke. Haven't tried it myself though. BTW, I applaud your use of Nuke for the church website. Too often I come across church websites that are WAY out of date on their content. Sure, they may look pretty, but haven't been updated in 12 months. Content is king, and making calendar and event entries as easy as possible to update is the way to go. How many churches really have staff capable of updating a site beyond using a very simple blog or cms interface...not many I'm sure.