thanks for the help!

Ok, while I do appreciate the suggestion to set up RSS feeds and switch my email client to Thunderbird, it's not really the addressing the original question. Should I assume that it is not possible to get emailed when someone posts? thanks-

I don't know if that would help me out or not -- I've never used RSS for anything. Doesn't that still require me to launch my browser or RSS reader? I would rather not have to remember to check on the forum, which I why I was looking for an email notification. Does that make sense? thanks-

I'd like to receive an email every time that a user posts. Is there a setting that does that?

Right now I have to manually check the forum every day and see if I need to answer any posts.  thanks!