Hello, Old Friends! My goodness, I can't believe how tardy this is. I found this thread some time ago and have been meaning to come back and comment. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! The emails in the hospital were a real pick-me-up. I think I still have them somewhere -- I must find and re-read them some time. Mistress Mary did indeed bring me a water hyacinth in the hospital, and was an amazing help to me during my convalescence, and not only then! She's a real peach. So anyway, yeah, it was an ordeal, not something I'd care to repeat, but I had excellent care and have recovered well, though it's been a long process. What actually happened was that the anticipated 2 surgical days turned into 3, because the neurosurgery part of Day 1 took much longer than anticipated. I was in hospital and rehab for a total of 6 weeks, with a few days home between the second and third operations. I didn't mean to abandon you all. At the time I was more active in a forum for people with spine issues like mine, for obvious reasons, and since then I've been absent because I'm too compulsive and when I'm active here I tend to get nothing else done. I'm currently experiencing one of ponding's worst waking nightmares (muskrats trashed my liner -- agh!), so this seemed as good a time as any to pop in and say my much-belated thank-you's. With a little luck maybe I'll learn to manage my time better and stick around! (Yes, this is really me. I couldn't remember my NorahS login, and I'd rather spell my name forward, anyway.)

Maybe we can repost this with a note NOT to reply that way it stays at the top? Is there a way we can sticky this?

Hi, I just went to www.live.com, clicked on 'hotmail' at the top, signed in (username @live.com -- must have that part ! and password). No problem. Not sure why it would be giving you trouble, ilmbg. Maybe try signing it with your username@live.com and username@hotmail.com just to see if there's a difference. Re: Gmail: I can't speak with any authority, however, I did recently try using Google Apps (which uses Gmail basically) to host email for my domain. I only used it for about a month and it lost three saved drafts I was working on ! Poof ! And once, when I had two saved drafts in the drafts folder, it lost one of them and duplicated the other (so I still had two drafts, just not the right ones). ...sigh... Well, some people love Gmail and some have issues with it. I guess I'm in the latter group. :-( Scott

Sue, an e-mail account password cannot be arbitrarily changed with Thunderbird. Thunderbird is not in control of the password, the server controls it. Thunderbird simply sends the password to the server that's already configured there, to signal to the server that "hey, this is legitimately Sue (because she has the correct password) who wants to open her mailbox." If you wish to change an e-mail password (for Gmail, Yahoo, your local ISP, whatever mail service may be involved), the change must first be done at the service provider. Then you enter that new password into Thunderbird when prompted for it. Thunderbird configuration does not provide a direct entry field for the password. Some e-mail programs do, Thunderbird does not. It will prompt for the password when needed. There's a checkbox on the password entry dialog Use Password Manager to remember this password. Enabling that option will make Thunderbird retain the password in its internal settings from that point on and thus not need to ask for it again ... unless the password is changed on the server which causes what Thunderbird has saved to be wrong. If the "remember password" option is not enabled, then Thunderbird won't save it and will prompt for the password each time mail is checked for the first time during a new session. There may be passwords involved for both receiving and sending mail. Usually it's the same password both but in some instance they can be different.