Hi Christy, many Windows 7 users are using Thunderbird from Mozila. I still use my old Courier Beta which they finally decided could not work with Vista and dropped. I have no problem with it but I do everything in Plain Text I also use Gmail for web mail backup of important files. Mike the mod ******* REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 22/01/2010 at 5:39 PM Christy wrote: I may end up purchasing win 7 for my fairly new laptop that has vista on it. What mail program is a good one to use if it does not have one? I assumed it did have one. thanks, christy --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------