Sorry, I hadn't noticed that you said the peep was alone in the OP. What version of VF are you running? I think that there was a bug in an early version that stopped the peep from reading email if you were running the tutorial and it got derailed. Go to the menu screen and if it's not version 1.00.05 see this thread for how to upgrade. That's assuming you got your game direct from LDW, that is ...