Bob, the link Barry posted in his message is an excellent one. Follow those guidelines and you should be able to set yourself up very quickly. And if you want an alternative site, it's also worth reading the various tutorials here: http://www.nidelven-it.no/articles/introduction_to_thunderbird To further aid you after you get running with Thunderbird, here are a couple of sites on how to backup Thunderbird: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ http://tinyurl.com/allog To clean up Firefox after browsing you can use CleanMOCache: http://www.buttuglysoftware.com/CleanMOCache1.html Thunderbird makes an excellent RSS reader too, in case you haven't discovered that feature yet. Lance -----Original Message----- From: bobzmail@juno.com [mailto:bobzmail@juno.com] Sent: Saturday, 23 July 2005 4:22 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Firefox Lance, I have another e-mail provider and have Windows XP. I would like to use Mozilla-Thunderbird for e-mail but I can not figure out how to set this up. It has me confused. Can you help me with this?