kudzu9 Thanks, nice web site, and free, or do I get a bill later :>? I got detailed help from the mozillazine web, and among the recommendations was to "compact folder", which I hadn't done in a few weeks...and my email is active. I did a compact and bingo, speed very fast, well given I have the low-end DSL. The problem seemed to be more background/overhead stuff, as the progress dialog showed long times for "connecting" and "sending log on information". It also turns out the latest Thunderbird is 2.0.0.21, which is what I had updated to. I'll keep a copy of the speedeasy test.

Is Tbird 3 beta, or is it okay to get it? I'm still using 2.0.0.4, and something happened a couple days ago that removed all the separators, ie New, Last Week, Old. Now all the mail is there with no separators, also changed it to Descending order. Time to change? Sue

This happened to be to an organization and I only know one of the people personally. The address for the one that didn't go was given to me and now I know it was given to me incorrectly. An O instead of an A in the name. I wanted to know for sure if the other two were sent, and now I know they were. Thanks to both of you for the replies. Sue

Thanks zep516 for the link. That is the information that I needed. Ravencajun.. I do know about the bbc but when I typed in Westcoasters and included myself I saw all the addy's when the email came to me and I really prefer not to send other addy's on to everyone on the list. I do thank you both for your quick responses. Iris