And now I am making progress, in a negative kind of way. Copy out these writings and hang them in your children’s bedrooms as an awful warning never to trust anyone to do anything straightforward on the Internet.

To recap: The object of this exercise is to obtain our email service from somewhere that we can afford.

Note that. There is nothing else that we require. NOTHING!

The difficulty – apart from the inexplicable behaviour of normally reliable and trouble-free browsers when confronted by WordPress and Zoho – is finding simple, basic information.

I thought that I had, after interminable searching, discovered that Zoho only allowed two pop accounts on its free ‘service’. I don’t know where I read that and I’m absolutely sure that if I live to be 100 years old I’ll never find it again. What I did stumble across next was that Zoho allows NO pop or IMAP accounts. In other words there is NO free email service, only a rather cumbersome webmail service.

So I have wasted several days trolling through a mass of ‘information’ and ‘help’, none of which was informational or helpful. In fact all of which served to obscure the only information that was of use to me.

Now I must gird up my loins and venture into the word jungle again to see if I can find an affordable solution. This has so far been like asking for a domestic electricity supply and being told that the only option is to buy a complete nuclear power station.

(I helped to build one of those a long time ago – it was much easier than this.)