[jriera]

Sherwood, follow Don's advice.. take a good look to Eudora, probably one of the best email clients out there (and is also free).. also the one included in Netscape (or Opera) is fairly good... remember is just email, you create a message and send it... not precisly rocket science.

You mention that you have yahoo mail now as your main email server... as far as I know Yahoo Mail cannot be easily accessed from outside of yahoo (does not provide standard interfaces ie. POP3, IMAP). You may want to consider using the mail server and mail address that you cable provider will give you or apply for a hotmail.com account (also free).

Hope this helps