I think they both work well. I pop my gmail into my own mail program. I have used Thunderbird just to see how it works. Neither was a problem to set up or to maintain. I do not use Microsoft/Windows mail. Elaine Whatever trips your trigger. --Unknown Hello RL On Friday, February 1, 2013, you wrote > I have had gmail for several years and never > had any problems with it. > All the complaints I have heard to date refer to Thunderbird. >   > Rachel  > --- On Fri, 2/1/13, > [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >   > Yvonne, don't think you are alone in > understanding G-Mail.  I jumped on that > wagon because everybody was raving about it.  > Well, I have it, never use it > except when I don't mind when my "mail disappears".  Carol > ------------------------------ > To contact the GEN-NEWBIE list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > To post a message to the GEN-NEWBIE mailing > list, send an email to [email protected] > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > End of GEN-NEWBIE Digest, Vol 8, Issue 33 > ***************************************** > ******************** > Gen-Newbie's website: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email to [email protected] with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message