gmail is great; I use it and might even drop my own website account

the chat function is WAY too distracting

tabor330 will you use gmail from Outlook or Thunderbird or some other client software?

zomby A web browser -I use FF

what makes the chat seem distracting to you, tabor330?

Lona all the people that I email all the time are at the top of the list, and it tells me when they are there ergo we chat - fun, but shiny