Hi Zep, Well, I learned how to paste a print screen image into a post. :) I had already changed my "sents" to go to the local folder and had added a folder for Sents other than the default. Does this look right? The article still doesn't explain why my posts aren't being sent/timing out. I really love Thunderbird, but I'm afraid I might end up being a yahoo customer. :)

grandms, I think that was the answer I was looking for. But keep in mind that the e-mails that you get on Windows Live Mail will not download to OE also. I do know that if you are in a certain mail account when you are receiving mail, it lands at the account you have open provided you have those accounts allowed in and you can not get them again. Example: If I was in Windows Live Hotmail and mail is coming in, when I close out and go to OE, the mail that came in while WLH was open to receive them, those mails will not show up in OE then as they would have had I not had WLH mail open. But, I am assuming Windows Live Mail will not associate with OE at all from what DA posted? (Thanks DA for your time spent. Didn't mean for you to have to do that) Thank you too RC, will go back and check your url out. I am afraid to open my Hotmail account because of that incident I had (don't trust hotmail) and tried to change that addy to gmail here for Garden Web but GW won't let me so I may be missing email replies to me if sent there from here.

I have been using the Thunderbird email for over a month now I use the email client every day to download my email from the Road Runner site because of all the flashing ads on Road Runner when I would go there to read my email. I hated the ads because they continuously flashed over and over. It was very irritating. So I started using Thunderbird over a year ago and kept it updated as it improved.

I finally phrased my question so that Google found a similar query and solution (from 2006) that still worked 8 years later! In case this might help another user, here are the step from the Moderator at MozillaZine. âÂÂClick on the imported address book name in the left hand pane. Now click on any name in the right hand pane and then use menu path Edit->Select All, or press Ctrl-A. Now drag and drop the data from the imported address book to the Personal Address Book. Once you have confirmed that everything has copied over properly you can delete the imported address book.â I would add that this didn't work smoothly until I deleted special lists/groups. Once they were removed, the whole address book previously under the âÂÂThunderbird Addressesâ name quickly and correctly transferred to âÂÂPersonal Address BookâÂÂ. I'm a happy camper.