"KenK" wrote

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| I tried Thunderbird. It's better, but annoyingly it fails to send my
| message about a third of the time.

You can get the latest supported here. Pick your language:

http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thund.../52.9.1/win32/

It should work fine. But gmail can be a pain. They're
very pushy about 2-factor authentication, for instance.
If it's not sending, check error messages.

| Or perhaps a nice new enmail app that runs nicely under XP?
|
Outlook Express. They'll have to pry it from
my cold, dead XP computer.