Re: correspondence with newsgroup
- From: Rene Brehmer <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:42:16 -0600
On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:02:01 -0700, Grampy Pete wrote:
I came back to check my messages or responses and wish to thank you for the
information you rendered; I will now paste it in my learnng folder and when
Comcast gets its software steady I will see what I can do.
My other post re: losing my wife's email was a scary experience with Outlook
Express so I'll discern between newsgroups and email and tread cautiously.
Thank you very much.
I've never had to deal with Comcast personally, but the impressions friends
and others left me, is that they don't really know how to configure much
anything.
Outlook is designed to work with Exchange server, for any other uses, just
about any other program is a better choice for email. Especially if you
don't want to lose your email. It's easy to lose mail in Outlook, it' not
very easy to recover it. It's the only mail program ever that deletes the
file that stores the mail, when you delete the account the mail came from.
I highly recommend switching to Thunderbird for email. It has higher mail
capacity too, so no need to "archive" your mail every 2 weeks. You can have
as many accounts and email addresses you want, delete them as you please,
and you'll never lose any email. And it's forwards and backwards
compatible, so you can up and downgrade and still have access to your mail.
It organizes mail differently, render formatted emails correctly, and does
a better job at protecting your privacy and your messages. My dad just
passed 74 years of age, and loves the program. He used to be on Outlook
(because it's what he used when he worked), then he got a new computer that
came with Open Office instead of MS Office, and was forced to make a
switch. I sent him the link to download Thunderbird, and he's been running
with it happily since. Worth noting that I live 6000 km from my dad, and I
have yet to have to help him figure out how to do anything with the
program. What the program doesn't do for him, he figures out himself.
Thunderbird updates itself, and then tells you it does. It updates its
addons itself too, so you're always safe and secure as can be.
That program is simple on the surface, but dig deep enough and you'll find
a plethora of more complicated settings and features - so you can grow with
it and get more hardcore as you use it.
And I have never heard of anyone losing their email with Thunderbird. Had
to help people recover mail in Outlook many, many, many times though.
Eudora too several times.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician
North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com
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