Subscriber Mike Evans wrote recently with a question about changing from IMAP to POP3 for his email. The IMAP server was responding slowly: Terry, I recently went to wireless internet and by doing so I got rid of Qwest as my internet provider so I had to change emails and went from q.com(POP acct.) to [...]
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Switching IMAP Email Account to POP3 Email
Filed Under: Communications, Computers, Email, Software, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting, Windows Live Mail Tagged With: e mail, email client, gmail, gmail interface, imap, imap account, imap email, imap server, internet message access protocol, internet providers, mail transfer agents, pop3, pop3 email, post office protocol, wireless internet
Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 29, 2012
This week’s email newsletter articles are: What’s This Desktop.ini (or Desktop) File on my Windows 7 Desktop?One of the strange changes that came with Windows 7, at least for those of us who previously used Windows XP, is that some of the operating system options don’t work the same. Advanced Windows users often want to [...]
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Unable to Delete an IMAP Email Account in Thunderbird
Subscriber 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 much spam), but do you think I can get rid of it in Thunderbird? [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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