Hi Peter,
Thank you for this. I will probably take your advice and change to
Thunderbird. I've just had a look at it on www.mozilla.com . I went
through a couple of sections of the tutorial and it looks fairly straight
forward.
According to Dotan Cohen, who also replied to my email, "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 windows
equivalents) because OE and Windows share memory space."
So, this would seem to be another good reason for changing. I didn't
realise that I'd had my head stuck in the sand for so long!
I'm sorry to bother you again, but do you happen to know if I can get rid of
Outlook Express, when I'm satisfied that Thunderbird is working ok, by
uninstalling it? What I'm getting at is, if it shares files with Windows,
will uninstalling it cause problems for Windows, or will any shared files
simply remain because they are required by Windows?
Thanks again.
Regards,
Dave Potter.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Unscribe
David Potter wrote:
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.
See comments below on ISPs changing users' email addresses.
I'm afraid I didn't understand the term "default client".
A "default client" is the program that handles a particular task when you
don't specify one explicitly. For example, if you click on an email link
in a web page, your default mailer will pop up to send mail. If you don't
have a default set, your browser will probably ask you what program you
want to use to handle the request.
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.
Check that your ISP hasn't changed your email address slightly without
telling you. This is *very common*. Your message arrived here bearing the
address "David Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Unless the
address matches *exactly* the one you signed up with, unsubscribing will
fail, because the mail server cannot guess that (hypothetically)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the same person as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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?
This is a recurrent problem. I forget who wrote something like "...many
people think that water has no taste because we grow up with it in our
mouths daily". Outlook Express is a heavy cut-down of Outlook, and is one
of the most restrictive and poorly-designed email programs ever written.
But like many similar programs, if you only use it for the very simplest
of tasks (sending and receiving mail) you'll never notice the
deficiencies: they only come to light when you need to do something
additional, like solve the problem of why certain mails fail to arrive or
depart, or find out why some people can't read what you send them, or you
want to file and handle your mail in a more effective manner.
> I'm not a computer expert by the way (yes, painfully obvious), I'm a
> retired biochemist.
Lucky man :-)
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/) works similarly to
OE but provides far superior facilities. It's free: you just download it
and install it. Don't feel pressurised: by all means stick to OE if it
works for you, but be aware that the rest of the world has moved on
considerably, and be prepared to encounter circumstances which OE is
increasingly unable to handle.
///Peter
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