While gmail has some excellent features, I stopped using it because I didn't get my own posts back by default when I posted a message to a rootsweb mailing list. I had to keep checking the list archives to see if my message "made it" to the list, which became a time-consuming nuisance to me. Lou --------------original message------------------- In a message dated 8/18/2008 2:18:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Try gmail (Google Mail). It holds "tons" of old mail (for forever), you can set filters to auto-sort mail as it arrives (handy for Lists), it handles images/attachments much easier than AOL, it auto-grabs spam with almost 100% efficiency (and deletes it after 30 days--never need to touch it), it has chat capbility (that get saved to email--esp if you don't see it when someone sends)--- and, it's free. Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)