Subscriber Terry Millburg wrote recently with a queestion about sending email with Outlook Express. I have an issue with Outlook Express in XP Home on a dell. Do you have any recommendations on a unit that can receive but not send in Outlook Express? I have tried the usual, uninstall & reinstall the OE from [...]

Reader Bev Lammert has written me about an alternative anti-spam program that she’s picked: Hi, I just read my newsletter of which I love but had to comment on your Anti Spam article. You mentioned MailWasherPopFile & IHateSpam. I haven’t tried any of them but I do use one called Spam Bully and have used [...]

Sherrill Kerbaugh wrote about a major problemm she and her husband were having on both of their computers: Hi, Terry… We have a major problem…. My husband has been unable to delete daily e-mails for a few weeks now….we can’t figure out what in the world is wrong!?!?!?! Now, all of a sudden I can’t [...]

Subscriber Gary wrote to ask: I used to use Incredimail, have returned to Outlook, am trying to set up my email so that email from my family will go to my Family Folder in my local folder, outlook isn’t specific enough like incredimail message rules. Yhanks for your help. Gary Gary, Be sure to consider [...]

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Once upon a time, Netscape was THE Internet web browser — and it was a commercial product. Then, along came the big bad wolf. He dreamed of world (wide web) conquest and so he wrote his own web browser; then, he gave it away with the operating system he sold. It was bad, but it [...]

Subscriber Jerome Safer wrote recently about trouble importing addresses from Excel into Outlook Express: Terry,I am trying to help a friend Import some contacts from Excel into Outlook Express or Outlook. I have studied the Import and have done a test import of a .csv file from Excel into Outlook Express and it worked until [...]

Sometimes, there are weeks of weird problems. Something in the air? The phase of the moon? Who knows? Whether users have opened dialog boxes and accidentally clicked on the wrong things or “IE7 did it to me,” I’ve read of some subscriber problems have been very frustrating. Take this one from Louise, for example: Terry, [...]

Have you ever received an email that had a broken link? Sometimes, the length of a URL is so long, or it’s at the “wrong point” in a sentence such that the email program breaks the URL — and wraps part of it onto the next line of the email. If we’re sending the email [...]

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 [...]