Andrea, What you just said is nonsense. My eight year old grandson just set up his email account on Outlook Express. His mother bought him a used computer with Windows XP. If he can do it, that should show you that it is not hard and works just fine. As I have told you before I used it until 2005 before switching to Microsoft Office. Again I had no complaints and did not find it difficult to set up. When I first starting using it, you had to set it up manually. Once I understood what was needed I had no problem.
Just to let you know also it is not http. I hope got this right but it should be smtp and pop (pop3). Someone correct me if I did not get that right.
You got it right.
Pop3 (or simply pop) stands for Post Office Protocol and is the protocol used for transferring mail to an email client.
A web based email account uses Pop3 to transfer emails to a computer's email client programs.
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is used in a client setting to send emails.
Both protocols utilize servers and the server data required is easily obtained.
Gmail uses pop.gmail.com on port 995 as it's incoming pop3 server and the outgoing smtp server is smtp.gmail.com on port 587 or 465 depending on the client used.
Thunderbird 3.1 uses a wizard that really only requires the user input their display name, email address and password.
It defaults to IMAP but can be edited in the wizard to POP3.
The above server settings are the appropriate settings for POP3.
with port 995 SSL\TLS for pop.gmail.com and port 465 SSL\TLS for smtp.gmail.com
With hotmail it is even easier since hotmail doesn't offer IMAP.
The wizard selects the correct settings by default.
I've found this wizards even correctly sets up my ISP account as well as my GoDaddy domain's account.
All this requires minimal effort on the part of the user.
As you stated an 8 year old ca do it.
Andrea says that the server info isn't available but it is readily available.
If the account is provided by an ISP or domain seller like GoDaddy then a search of their web sites will provide info for setting up a local account.
For the truly lazy, LOL a quick, usually free phone call to your ISP's or GoDaddy's help desk will often result in them walking you through the process.
Gmail and Hotmail has info on their respective web sites.
The above is valid info
not misinformation, something I'm sure Andrea
cannot appreciate.
Andrea, as to your bank manager not knowing how to setup and use an email client that doesn't surprise me since many office workers aren't particularity computer savvy.
They often depend heavily on the IT department for things like this.
As a matter of fact and if her organization allows it a simple call to the IT department would have her up and running in no time.
Actually she probably has an email client like the old Lotus notes or Outlook already setup.
We get it Andrea, setting up a mail client is beyond tour very limited abilities but to constantly harp about local email clients being programs nobody can use is absurd.
The fact is that millions of computer users use these programs all the time.
This is fact not opinion or conjecture do you understand?
FACT.
