In the morning, I check my email (the program is on all night).
When I leave for work, I mean to turn off the program, but I often forget. That means that I end up missing messages during the day because my home computer is downloading them.
Ideally (I think), I’d like a way to have my email program at home turn itself off at a specific time. Is this possible? I’m seeing software that can reboot the machine at specific times, but that is less ideal as I have programs I prefer to leave running.
One option, that will (I think) work in XP Pro:
In notepad, create a file containing the following line, replacing ‘thunderbird.exe’ with the filename of your email program:
Save it somewhere safe, under a name such as ‘emaildown.bat’ (the .bat extension is necessary)
Now, go to Control Panel - Scheduled Tasks - Add Scheduled Task, click Next and Browse. Find the .bat file, select it and click next. Follow the rest of the wizard to set up the times you want the email program to shut down.
What do you mean by ‘missing messages during the day’?
If you’re downloading email with a client at home, and checking webmail during the day, then the easiest way to make that work is to go in to your home email client options and set it to ‘only delete after 5 days’ or something like that.
This will mean your home client will download mail, but not delete it until the speficied period of time has elapsed. This should allow you to get mail from both your locations.
I don’t want the same mail at both locations. I just want the mail at the location where I am, not the location where I am not. 
I set it up, then ran the file to see if it would terminate Eudora. It didn’t. It should if I either click on the file or go through the run interface, right? Or am I clueless again? Or both!
Wait. I’m using XP Home Edition, not Pro. That could be the problem.