When you donate to the Free Republic, one of the benefits is you get your own freerepublic.com EMAIL. Mine is theraven@freerepublic.com and it doesn’t work. I was checking if there is a solution.
I’m sorry I have no clue. I’ve never even heard that an email account is a reward for donating. I have included pinging an Admin who perhaps has more information to offer, because I have none. Good luck.
The only email I am aware of is when you click on private reply which allows you to communicate privately with another user privately with an internal email type of system. Perhaps that is what you are talking about?