Bill
Here are some suggestions for your Thunderbird+Gmail configurations: 1) Use IMAP (not POP3), (You may need to delete the present account in Thunderbird, and set it up from scratch again.) 2) Under "Synchronization & Storage", consider unchecking "Keep messages for this account on this computer". This way you would avoid downloading all messages from Gmail at once, but rather, Thunder bird will only download the message headers. After that, when you need to read the message, and click on it in the message list, Thunderbird download just that message. This will save a lot of space on your local harddrive and you would avoid initial clogging of Thunderbird. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.