New to Win7 - email problems

[RustY ©]

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I understand that it's all my fault but I'm struggling to set up live-mail
to my liking. I use a domain name so I need to make outgoing mail appear to
come from that and not where it has actually been sent from. It was easy in
OE6 but how do I do it now?

Also is there a better mail client I can install?

 

[choro]

What an inappropriate word this "client" is? A client in normal everyday
English means a customer. And to refer to such programs as OE and
Thunderbird is email clients can only be the work of people who lack a
logical mind. The client is surely the person who receives the email
rather than the program that delivers it. The postman is never the
recepient of the mail, is he. So neither is an email program the client.
The recepient of the email is the client!

 

[Stan Brown]

I understand that it's all my fault but I'm struggling to set up
live-mail to my liking.

It's a losing battle. Cut your losses.

I use a domain name so I need to make outgoing mail appear to
come from that and not where it has actually been sent from. It was easy in
OE6 but how do I do it now?

Also is there a better mail client I can install?

Almost any one would be better.

My own experience: after many years with Pegasus, when I got my Win 7
computer I could no longer use it because Pegasus wants to write to
the program files directory, a security no-no. There had been enough
other annoyances with Pegasus that I took this as an opportunity to
switch.

The IR guy at work recommended Thunderbird. I downloaded it and it
was amazingly easy to set up. I have three regular email addresses
and one accessible only by Web. For each of the three, I gave
Thunderbird my email address and password and it did everything else.
Each of those is called an "account" in Thunderbird.

For the Web mail, I set up a second "identity" under one of the
"accounts", with the Web mail address as my "From" and "Reply to".
When I send mail I have a drop-down list for which identity or
account to send it from.

Thunderbird's not perfect, but what is? I find it works pretty well
for me, and I recommend it for email (not newsgroups).

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

What an inappropriate word this "client" is? A client in normal
everyday English means a customer. And to refer to such programs as
OE and Thunderbird is email clients can only be the work of people
who lack a logical mind. The client is surely the person who receives
the email rather than the program that delivers it. The postman is
never the recepient of the mail, is he. So neither is an email
program the client. The recepient of the email is the client!

In the computer world a client is a program or device that accesses a
server. A browser is a client, as is a mail sender/receiver or
newsreader. Look at definition five with your HTTP client:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/client

 

[Ken Blake]

I understand that it's all my fault but I'm struggling to set up live-mail
to my liking. I use a domain name so I need to make outgoing mail appear to
come from that and not where it has actually been sent from. It was easy in
OE6 but how do I do it now?

Also is there a better mail client I can install?

You are asking about Windows Live Mail? My personal preference is
Outlook 2010, but in my view, almost any of the many available choices
is much better than Windows Live Mail.

 

[RustY ©]

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Thank's all,

I'll get to work on it !

 

[Nil]

My own experience: after many years with Pegasus, when I got my
Win 7 computer I could no longer use it because Pegasus wants to
write to the program files directory, a security no-no. There had
been enough other annoyances with Pegasus that I took this as an
opportunity to switch.

The workaround is so trivial as to hardly be worth mentioning: just
install it somewhere other than in \Program Files.

I've been using Pegasus for decades, and I'll give it up when they pry
it from my cold dead hands.

 

[Stan Brown]

What an inappropriate word this "client" is? A client in normal everyday
English means a customer. And to refer to such programs as OE and
Thunderbird is email clients can only be the work of people who lack a
logical mind. The client is surely the person who receives the email
rather than the program that delivers it. The postman is never the
recepient of the mail, is he. So neither is an email program the client.
The recepient of the email is the client!

Well, Valorie, in computers there is a server and a client. BOTH are
hardware-software combinations. This is pretty standard network
terminology.

The person who sends a message is the sender, and the person who
receives it is the receiver (or recipient).

 

[Stan Brown]

The workaround is so trivial as to hardly be worth mentioning: just
install it somewhere other than in \Program Files.

It was annoying in so many other ways that this misfeature was the
last straw for me. After all, we've known for decades that programs
and data aren't the same thing, and there's really no excuse for a
program writing to its own installation folder during normal
operation. (In my opinion, obviously.)

I've been using Pegasus for decades, and I'll give it up when they pry
it from my cold dead hands.

That's your prerogative.

 

[choro]

Well, Valorie, in computers there is a server and a client. BOTH are
hardware-software combinations. This is pretty standard network
terminology.

The person who sends a message is the sender, and the person who
receives it is the receiver (or recipient).

So if the server serves and the receiver receives, where does THAT leave
the client? ;-)

This is one of those standard terms that rubs be up the wrong way any day!

And I am not Valorie or Valerie 'cause I stick it up yer arse!

I can be very rude to boot, as you must have guessed by now!