On 20/02/07, David Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For the attention of: Heather Dudley, Dotan Cohen and James Knott.
I would like to thank you all for your helpful suggestions and discussion
but I'm sending this to the open list because some of the points show how
careful one has to be to convey the facts.
So, I should apologise for not making it clear that the webmail I was using
was that of my ISP: Orange, i.e. it was on the route that my email normally
takes. So, I was using the my usual email address.
I'm afraid I didn't understand the term "default client". I didn't know
whether that was related to my ISP or that of the addressee/website I was
trying to interact with. According to my Rough Guide to the Internet
(2000) - glossary, a client is: "program that accesses information across a
network, such as a Web browser or newsreader". I find that not much clearer
than mud. Does that mean and ISP is a client and that my ISP is my client?
And, how should I know when a "default client" is referred to who's client
it is?
A client is a program that displays or processes data from a remote
server. Since Outlook retrieves mail from your ISP's server, it is a
'client'. Subscribe to the rss feed at http://what-is-what.com and
I'll put up an explanation of what a 'client' is in the next few days.
I'm not a computer expert by the way (yes, painfully obvious), I'm a retired
biochemist.
I'm not a biochemist. I'm sure that there's a lot of interesting
things that you could teach us. Don't be shy to ask about the things
that we might be able to teach you.
The reason I wanted to unsubscribe from the mailing list was that in Outlook
Express and having broadband, when 50- 100 messages download, I direct them
straight into an Open Office folder and can deal with them at leisure. I
have learnt a lot by browsing selectively since I subscribed, but from there
I can do bulk deletes. On the webmail site, I have not been able to divert
these messages from the Inbox. Hence, I was having to click a box next to
each message before I could do a delete. I could only delete a page at a
time (20 messages) I could probably have a page of 100 messages, but then if
I want to deal with non OO messages, I have to read all through to isolate
them. Inconvenient!
That's because your ISP uses the POP3 protocol. Ask about IMAP, most
support it. Even if they don't know that they support it, IMAP can
often be configured by the end user.
I managed to send an "unsubscribe" message by copying in the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] address and got a response asking me to
confirm. But, although I sent the confirm message to the email address
provided, that didn't work and I'm still receiving all the mailing list
messages. The good news is that it doesn't matter now, because when I
switched on this morning Outlook Express opened and has been working ever
since (with one other start up).
Good to know. But for the safety of your computer you should get rid
of Outlook Express and use Thunderbird.
Last but not least, James Knott wrote "Instead of using OE, why not go with
a far better email program, such as
Thunderbird or Seamonkey?" Well James I have been using OE for 14 years+
and I don't know anything about either of the other programmes you
mentioned. Please elaborate and let us know the advantages?
Thunderbird lacks some of the advanced features of Outlook, but I
believe that it is very similar to Outlook Express. The main reason
that I suggest you switch is the fact that Outlook Express is very
susceptible to viruses, worms, and other malware. It's tight
integration with the Windows operating system means that exploits have
a direct means of accessing kernel processes (or their windowss
equivilents) because OE and Windows share memory space.
Dotan Cohen
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