Challenge! A LabVIEW email GUI for elderly person

My elderly neighbour has recently been set up with a tiny laptop (running win7 starter) and a hotmail account to keep in touch with her relatives. She is in her late 80's and has never used a computer before. She can drive a tractor and shoot moles but never manages to navigate through hotmail to her inbox. (the tiny inbox text is lost in a sea of adverts and junk).
The obvious solution is a LabVIEW front end! Something that looks like this http://pawpawmail.com/learn/ but uses a free email server.
I have very little time to produce something, so has anyone driven a web-based email server using LabVIEW before? Can anyone start the ball rolling with some code here? All her relatives live hundreds of miles away, so any help would make a wonderful change to her life.
Many Thanks
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smercurio_fc wrote:
Nobody ever said LabVIEW couldn't do this. It could certainly be done, but it's not very practical, as other solutions are better in this case. One must learn when to use a hammer instead of a screwdriver to drive that nail in.
What are these "hammer" things people keep going on about???
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