B.W., I hear you. Maybe we’ll both get that round tuit at the same time ...

Astoria and H.C., I like Gmail too, but I would prefer to use an eddress from my own domain rather than Google’s. I haven’t given up on that yet, though ...

Mama, Thunderbird doesn’t like me very well either—and hasn’t ever since it was hatched. My computers have never been massively tweaked or specialized, so I am at a loss to explain why I have never been able to get T-bird to work on any of ’em. Fortunately there are several other options with Linux.