Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 22, 2012

This week’s email newsletter articles are: Unable to Delete an IMAP Email Account in ThunderbirdSubscriber Allan Pendlebury wrote to ask for help with a Thunderbird problem he was having: Hello Terry This is driving me nuts. I had gmx.com as an IMAP account in Thunderbird 9.0.1. I deleted my account on line with gmx (too [...]

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 [...]

Reader Feedback on the Thunderbird Email Program

After my articles in my recent email newsletters, in which I wrote about dropping Eudora OSE and switching to Thunderbird, I received several emails from current Thunderbird users. In one case, it was a question about something the reader couldn’t do. In this case, subscriber Richard Fuller wrote to give me his thoughts and complaints [...]

Can I use Outlook with Gmail?

Sometimes the questions I receive are from people who have recently replaced their computers or otherwise made changes in their software. The question may be difficult to explain or difficult to resolve — or it could address a question that was easy to answer. But, most importantly, it means that the subscriber has a problem [...]

A First Look at Eudora OSE

I got a surprise recently. I’d been keeping tabs on the new version of Eudora, which is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation along with the user interface from the Eudora program that I have used for years. It was released as Eudora OSE (Eudora Open Source Edition). I had tried [...]

Strange Email Addresses Showing Up in Mail Bounce Messages

New subscriber Jerry Argo wrote with a question about an email problem. Jerry had more than one email problem though. I don’t answer questions from non-subscribers — and Jerry had mis-typed his email address in the question he sent via my web site’s Contact Form. Although I don’t normally do this, I checked his name [...]