One way to to REALLY be sure that mail doesn't disappear would be to send it to yourself and save it on AOL. Then you would have a copy of the email and can copy and paste it into a new email to send when you are ready to do so. Joan In a message dated 2/2/2010 7:44:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, nlpakkala@aol.com writes: Thanks anyway Ema, I was mostly worried about losing my "mail waiting to be sent" if re-installing AOL. Nancy