Hi Patti, While I agree with you that Outlook Express is the best at reading e-mail, there are ways to bypass the tons of links on web page mail services.
Like Rick said, any e-mail client you use will require setting up, to synchronize accounts and to set your preferences. This, too, is the case for web mail checking, via an internet browser. If you recall, I sent you a message on this very thing not too long ago, on how to streamline your web mail checking to bypass all the links on the various web pages. I have copied and pasted the e-mail below. Hope this helps. *** Hi Tammy, Sorry to get back to you so late on this, but I found your message stuck away in my bulk items folder and forgot to check it in the last couple of days. Anyway, I regularly use Web Mail to check my e-mail through Yahoo, it is quite simple once you set it up to your liking. For example... My current sequence is as follows: Please keep in mind that I have already set up everything I need to check my e-mail quickly and to expedite not staying on my Internet Explorer window very long. Suffice it to say, I have set up my Yahoo log-in screen as a favourite, and because it's the only link in my favourites menu with the letter Y, all I have to do is hit the keystroke of alt+A to go to the favourites menu, then the letter Y to go to the Yahoo log-in screen. The link for that is usually mail.yahoo.com, and once there, you can add it to your favourites, and do the following: Hit the F key to go to the first form field. This will usually be the username field. Once you've established that it is the field you want, place a permanent placemarker there by pressing the control+shift+K keystroke. This will take you to a dialog box with the list of placemarkers already on the page. Since you haven't placed any, this list should be empty. Tab once to the add button and press the spacebar, which will pop up a placemarker name dialog box. You can either, choose to go with the name already there, or type in a new name for it. Now, Having done this, every time you go to the Yahoo log-in page and press the letter K to go to the first place marker, you'll land on the username field, at which point, you would go into the forms mode and enter the appropriate information and hit enter. Now that that's done, the following page will also need some work in order to stream line any future e-mail checking through web mail. So, in the following page after you've logged in, press the letter L until Jaws says list of 5 items. This is where the list of folders is. By folders I mean the Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts and Bulk and Trash folders. These are links that you use to go to the other web pages that contain your e-mails. This is also the list that will tell you how many unread e-mails you have in each folder. One thing you can do to streamline this process is place another permanent placemarker on that list of 5 items, or on the inbox link, if you want to go directly there, and use the placemarker to navigate the screen. This completely negates the process of having to scroll through the hundreds of links on the page. Once you've seen how many unread e-mails are in each folder, if that is your desired choice to do, hit enter on the folder, and the page with all the e-mails you have will pop up. After this, reading the list of e-mails and, subsequently, reading the e-mails you want to read are easy, once you know the specific keys to press to get you to where you want to go. So, for argument sake, Let's say you see that there are 53 unread messages in your inbox. Once the inbox link is highlighted, you press enter and the resulting page will load up. Once the page has completely loaded up, press the letter T for table, and this will take you right to the top of the e-mail list. In fact, once you press the letter T Jaws will take you directly to a checkbox at the beginning of the list of e-mails in the folder. Jaws will say something like checkbox not checked select all, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, this table starts off and lists the e-mail headers as follows: Sender: Attachments: (If any, usually not spoken, or spoken as a blank column) Subject: Date: Size: These are the columns in the table that lists the messages you have waiting to be read. There are other columns that will sometimes show up, such as view address book listing, or view contact details and other information, but in the table column headers, like the attachment column, Jaws often speaks these headers as blank columns. The only time Jaws will say that there's something there is when you are going through the list of e-mails, and there's an attachment or there are profiles you can view, in which case, the first row won't show these things, however subsequent rows will. At this point, you can use standard table reading commands to go through the table, namely, control+alt+up, left, down or right arrow to go through the table one cell at a time to read the information. Now, let's say that you see a message from David Ferrin that looks interesting and you want to read it, so you would go to the subject field and press enter on the subject link. Now, a page will load up displaying the contents of the message. You can use the same navigation keys you used in the previous screen to go through the message. These are pressing the letter T for table, which will take you directly to the header information for the message, then using the table navigation commands you used in the previous screen if you want to read the header information, and use some of the options it gives you, such as adding the person's e-mail address to your Yahoo address book, which is a different story and another tutorial that I can write if you need me to, or viewing the sender's Yahoo profile, and other options that I can't rightly remember right now. Anyway, if you don't want to go through this information again, just press control+alt+end to go to the end of the header table, and you can start reading the message proper from this point. After you've read the message, you have your various options, such as deleting marking or moving the message to another folder, which you can press the letter B to get to the buttons associated with these options, or move to the next message, and here you'll probably have to press the letter B to get to the buttons, then arrow down to the next link or previous link depending on where you want to go. either way, it's as easy as one two three when you know the navigation commands. Eventually, it becomes second nature and you hardly notice the time it takes. Other options are not as easy to use, such as marking a message and what to do with it, moving a message to a folder you have created and stuff like that, but I'm sure if you're going to do things like that, I have no doubt that, with proper set-up, like the way you set-up how to check your e-mail, you can efficiently figure that one out also. Anyway, let me know if you need anymore information and I'll endeavour to help you out. 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