ELW wrote:


In any case, I installed Thunderbird email client and it does everything! I
set it up to get multiple Hotmail POP-3 accounts and it (optionally) to
downloads headers only -- not the entire message contents -- in their own
folders even! It's great. Sending and receiving mail is flawless. Such a
deal.





You could have tried Windows Live Mail as well.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7A50F43C-B007-4904-B9C5-7B47F3007346&displaylang=en#Requirements

Although I still use old version of Mozilla TB!!