Well just because or your friends don't know how to use this software doesn't mean anybody else can't use it.Well,I have never been able to find out what my incoming or outgoing http.server is or what my POP address is. Yesterday I was up in London and I popped into an Internet cafe in the shopping center,that has never updated their computers to Windows 7. It is still using Windows XP,with IE6, and it had the very old and now out of date Windows Media Player 9.
But what caught my attention was that it had Outlook Express,which is the equivalent of Windows Live Mail that we have for Windows 7. Although,Windows Live Mail can also be used on Windows XP or Windows Vista, if you want it.
But on Outlook Express,to set it up,they asked for an email address which I knew. Then they asked for the outgoing http.server or POP server and or course I don't know that, and then it asked for my incoming http. or pop server, and I don't know that. And as I was I a public Internet cafe. How would I know that anyway? So of course I could not send any emails from Outlook Express.
And on my own computer,when I have tried to use Windows Live Mail and SeaMonkey mail which is the same as Outlook Express. That too asked for both my outgoing and incoming http.or POP server. And I don't know that. And I don't think that anybody else would know the answer to those impossible questions either.So I cannot use those type of emails.
So it has to be said that I think that they change the name of,Outlook Express,Windows Live Mail and SeaMonkey mail and others like it to- THE EMAIL THAT NOBODY CAN USE.
Well,it is the email that nobody can use. Because I and other people I have asked cannot use it either. Andrea Borman.
Andrea do you bother reading anything anyone says in response to your posts.Well,it is ridiculous that Outlook Express,Windows Live Mail,SeaMonkey and email clients like it asks for information that nobody can give an answer to, because nobody knows it. My outgoing http. or POP sever-I don't know that. And my incoming http.or POP server-I don't know that. And if I phoned my network service provider to ask them,I don't think they would even know what I was talking about. And I don't know what these email clients are talking about either. And also if you are away from home and using another computer,a public one in an office or an Internet cafe. How would you know what their outgoing or incoming http. or POP server is?
There are many modern chat messengers like Instantbird which is what I have got. And all I have to do to set it up is, enter my user name and password for which account I want to connect. For example to chat to contacts on Aim I would enter my Aim username and Aim log in password. And to add a contact I would just enter my contacts username on Aim. Instantbird supports a lot of Networks and it is like Pidgin, but it is easier to use than Pidgin. I cannot use Pidgin anyway, it is just too complicated and not user friendly,but Instantbird is very easy to use. It is strange that Instantbird and Pidgin are both made by the same people. And Instantbird is easy to use,while Pidgin is not.
You cannot do voice or video chat on Instantbird as it does not support this, but you can do live email text chat and send email text if your contact is offline. And it supports a lot of Networks,among them,Google,Windows Live,Aim and many others. And you can of course use your own web based email account like your G.Mail or Hotmail account or other, to send emails to anyone,anywhere.
And then there is the live voice and video chat messengers that do voice and video chat and email text chat. And even the ones that don't like Instantbird,they don't ask you for your outgoing or incoming htpt. or POP server which nobody knows anyway. All they ask you for is your email address or user name your password for that email, or live messenger account and your contacts email or user name. And you are all set up.
So if we have normal email and live chat messengers,why use Outlook Express or it's clones,which we can't use anyway? So it has to be said that Outlook Express and email clients like it is-the email that nobody can use. Andrea Borman.
Actually the gmail and hotmail settings are common knowledge.
In gmail the incoming settings are pop.gmail.com with the port setting of 995
Outgoing setting is smtp.gmail.com and the port is 587
Hotmail\msn is pop3.live.com incoming and the port is 995
Outgoing is smtp.live.com port 587
To quote Mike Hawthorne
Ps. One reason for using an application like Live Mail is that if, as I do you have multiple e-mail accounts, i.e. a business account and a personal account you can access them all in one place.
I give up Andrea, you're right and everyone else is wrong.Well,Frank,the chat messengers such as Aim Messenger and Windows Live Messenger are an easy way to talk with your contacts online using video and voice chat, and you can send them live email text messages. And on Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk send voice mails to your contacts when they are offline. As well as send email text messages to offline contacts.
Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail and it's email clones,like Thunderbird and SeaMonkey and others are for staying in touch with contacts by email. But we can't because we cannot use them. An online messenger or email client should not ask you such stupid questions like-what is your outgoing and incoming http.POP server. Because most people don't know and it is true from what I have read on the web about how to set up Outlook Express and it's clones.
That they advise you to phone your Internet service provider and ask them what the http. and POP server is both incoming and outgoing. And they also advise you to ask your internet service provider to allow you to enable settings for your incoming server.
And I don't see why we should have to go through so much hassle just to send emails to our contacts. Why do Outlook Express and it's clones,have such a system? Also If you have Outlook Express,Windows Live Mail or SeaMonkey mail installed on your computer. When you click on an email address on a website. It pops up asking you to send an email and of course I had to close it again as I could not use that email program.
Now I no longer have SeaMonkey web browser and I don't have Windows Live Mail, so I don't get any pop ups any more when I click on emails. Those pop ups were so annoying. And also they can confuse someone who is not so experienced with computers,into thinking thinking that Outlook Express and it's clones are the only way you can send an email. When that is not the only way,as you can send emails directly from your Hotmail,or any other email account. And you can also use a live chat messenger.Although there are not many chat messengers that work. The multi chat messengers,such as Trillion does not work and there was no way to figure out how to use it. And most of the other multi-chat messengers,Trillion,Digsby and others did not even work.
So if you want a mult-chat messenger that is a messenger that lets you contact friends on different networks,Meebo and I Love IM, which are both web messengers that you use in a web browser are best.
The other chat messengers that work are Windows Live Messenger,Aim Messenger,ICQ and Google Talk. But with those you can only contact other people who have the same email account. For example Windows Live only supports live chat to contacts who have a Windows Live account and Google Talk only G.Mail account contacts. Although with ICQ you can sign in with your Aim account and contact people on Aim. But that is because ICQ used to be part of Aol, I think or maybe it is still part of it now,I am not sure.
But it is very easy to for your contacts to open their own G.Mail or Aim account.Aim and ICQ have the added bonus of not having to invite someone to chat or wait for an invite to chat. You just add the contacts screen name and you can just call them right away.
And although it is true with Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger you cannot call contacts with other email accounts. You can still send voice mails to people with other email accounts if the contact is online or offline. And the new Windows Live allows you to send video messages to people with different email accounts as well.
So with all of the different choices,why use Outlook Express and it's unusable email client clones? If you can even call them email clients.
Outlook Express and email clients like it really is-THE EMAIL THAT NOBODY CAN USE. Andrea Borman.
Where do you come up with statements like "most people do not use Outlook Express or it's clones anyway"?So most people do not use Outlook Express or it's clones anyway.
Andrea Borman.
I have the $30.00 subscription as well.Personally I love Skype, almost everyone I know uses it, and I use it to talk to my friends, almost every day.
And I can not only talk to them, without typing, we can share what's on our monitors so that I can see what they are talking about and they can see what I'm talking about.
You can see them and they can see you, you can hold stuff up so they can see it.
I also use it as my telephone.
I no longer have long distance service on my regular phone, which saves me a lot of money, since Skype phone service only costs $30 a year.
I make almost all of my calls using it especially when I'm helping someone with their computer because it leave my hands free to work on my computer and follow what they are doing.
And it lets me show my graphic design clients the job I'm working on it real time so that we can discuss it without either of us having to go to the others location.
I'd say that Skype is one of the best deals anyplace, for $30 a year you just can't go wrong.
And if I want to call my friends in Scotland from the US it only costs 2 cents a minute to call their phone, or it's free if I can get them when they have their computer on.
I remember when calling GB from here was $5 a minute.
Mike