Me again, after posting the above, my wife informed me she was not getting Gmail into her Outlook Express. I found the following at Gmail. I have yet to set it up so not sure it works. Good Luck Smitty Using POP on multiple clients or mobile devices If you're accessing your Gmail using POP from multiple clients, Gmail's recent mode makes sure that all messages are made available to each client, rather than only to the first client to access new mail. Recent mode fetches the last 30 days of mail, regardless of whether it's been sent to another POP client already. In your POP client, replace 'username@gmail.com' in the Username field your POP client settings with 'recent:username@gmail.com'. Blackberry users will be signed in to recent mode automatically, without adding 'recent:'. Once you enable recent mode, please be sure to configure your POP client to leave messages on the server according to the instructions below: In Outlook, on the Advanced tab, check the box next to Leave a copy of messages on the server. In Outlook Express, on the Advanced tab, check the box next to Leave a copy of messages on server. In Apple Mail, on the Advanced tab, remove the check next to Remove copy from server after retrieving a message. In Thunderbird, on the Server Settings tab, check the box next to Leave messages on server.

When I click on settings the page that opens has 9 tabs, General,accounts, labels, filters,forwarding Imap/POP,chat , webclips,labs and themes. Clicking on the labs tab gave me a list of many new options to add. I also like the new themes, I have mine looking like a beach are you using the new version? look up at the top right corner does it say anything there about new version or older version, that is how you know which one you are using. Mine has the option to switch to older version so I am using newer version.

I have been able to change the labels from certain senders by creating filters. Here's some instructions for changing what tab your mail falls under: https://techforluddites.com/gmail-messages-promotions-primary-tab/

My experience with gmail and yahoo mail is that messages are kept forever. Since storage space for free accounts is limited, it's a good idea to 1) keep garbage ads and other marketing stuff out of your main, "real" email account, and 2) delete unimportant messages as received or at least every few months. If you want to keep something in the body of an email and want to find it easily, you can copy the text, paste it into a word processing program's file, and save that file on your PC. You can also print it to keep it. Documents or other attachments you want to keep, like photos, should be saved to a PC folder where other such data files are kept. If important, include them in your backup practices. I'm not an email folder user, it takes more time than I like to spend on something that may or may not be useful at a later date. When looking for a particular message, I find doing a key word search is usually successful and quick.