Outlook Express 6 Prints Email Headers Only

Subscriber Marc Taylor asked for some help solving a problem with Outlook Express 6: Searched the site but found nothing re: this problem. Currently running OE 6 on a Toshiba laptop running XP SP3 and it quit printing the body of an e-mail. Just prints header info. Have tried different printers. Any ideas? Thanks, Marc [...]

Windows Live Mail Freezing When Opening Attachments

Windows Live Mail crashes were giving long-time subsriber Raman problems, so he wrote to me to ask: Hello Terry When I try to open any attachments to my mail, the Windows Live Mail freezes. I checked on line and found many people have the same problem. Apparently this started after downloading Microsoft’s recent 11 updates. [...]

Thunderbird Button Bar Not Showing

Subscriber Oz Fisher wrote about a problem he was having with the free Thunderbird email program (which I use): Hi Terry, Thanks for publishing so many informative and useful tidbits of information on the Thunderbird email system. In order for me to create a message screen to send a message in Thunderbird, I have to [...]

Deleting Auto-Complete Addresses in Outlook

I thought this one was pretty obvious, but apparently it wasn’t. I had a co-worker start routinely sending emails to my personal account instead of my work account, just because she had responded to an email from my iPhone. The problem was that, even once she recognized the problem, she continued to send the emails [...]

Thunderbird Feedback from Subscribers

Subscriber Keith C wrote from Australia to comment on my Thunderbird 8.0 article recently: This latest Thunderbird (8.0) is a truly solid release. I used to notice some issues with earlier versions similar to what your article mentions Terry eg errors when sorting mail. Nothing like that since, rock solid Mozilla stability. Thunderbird is a [...]

New Version of Thunderbird Email Program for Windows

As many of my readers are aware, I switched from Eudora Open Source Edition to Thunderbird recently. My particular issues were that Eudora OSE was based on Thunderbird, but a version well over a year old, while there had been a number of updates to Thunderbird during that time. Thunderbird had a minor update shortly [...]

A Lost Address Book Window Pane in Thunderbird

I wrote recently to answer a question about how to create an address book in Thunderbird. That triggered long-time subscriber Chet Norris to write about his frustration: hi Terry just read your article on creating an address book which i did and named it ‘friends.’ i put all my friends addys in there and now [...]