Subscriber J. P. Plauche wrote about a problem he was having with Gmail and Internet Explorer, but not Gmail and Firefox or Chrome! Hey, Terry, Have a small problem with my gmail page after login. I am on a new computer, an HP 625, less than a week old, and using Windows 7. Here’s the [...]
Email Security When Using Wireless Networking
Email security is critical when you use wireless networking. When you use wireless networking at home, if you haven’t set your wireless router and wireless adapters to use the best encryption they will support (currently WPA2 for most personal wireless devices), you don’t have a secure system. You are broadcasting your data unencrypted or with [...]
Reading Emails – Opera’s Email Functions
Most of the time when I write about Opera (www.opera.com), I mention it as a web broswser. Actually, Opera has a lot of other capabilities, including functioning as an email program, a Usenet newsreader and more. Reader Rakesh (Ricky) Tewary wrote me to ask for help with a problem he’s been trying to solve with [...]
Gmail Webmail and POP3
A reader, who is also a member of the Cajun Clickers Computer Club (www.clickers.org) here in Baton Rouge, wrote me to ask about Gmail and free email sites: At one of the meetings at Cajun Clickers, you indicated that you used ??Eudora?? as your email preference. What is the best email site. Google has gmail [...]
Email Attachment Links Don’t Work
A subscriber wrote me recently about email problems he was having: I am having difficulty with the attachments on emails. I can not open any attachments sent me nor can I send any attachments. Do you have any suggestions? Unfortunately, he did not mention which email program he used. This happens often when asking someone [...]
Email Attachment Size
In these days of high-speed Internet access via cable systems, we think little about sending large attachments with our emails. We can send and receive them easily, so we forget that not everyone can. The maximum email size you can mail depends on what YOUR ISP allows and what your recipient’s ISP allows. Your recipient [...]
Email Using Gmail with Outlook
Google’s free online email program Gmail (gmail.com) offers a great deal in the way of web email services. First, you get a lot of space for your emails, currently 7,250 MB (7+ Gigabytes!). Gmail has great spam filtering, with few false negatives — that is, Gmail seldomly thinks that spam isn’t spam. Unfortunately, I can’t [...]
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