Thanks again folks. Got ability to send now provided I follow a set procedure, as follows: Make new message, hit send, go to Outbox, try send again "All Mail etc", no success, in its closed state move message to drafts, select 'send', go back to Outbox and message is in italics and goes! Am leaving a couple of obsolete messages in Drafts and Outbox as it seemed to speed up the process. Cheers.