We've been having trouble receiving emails. Having checked the lace and lace-chat archives, I know I haven't received at least 6 in the last couple of days. We've also been having to wait several minutes for our account to authorize before we could download what emails we were receiving, and DH has had all his Yahoo groups emails bounce back to Yahoo.
So I had a long and expensive talk with Technical Support (thinking of adding them to our Friends and Family numbers). We're using utlook Express. They directed me to a web site: www.mail2web.com where we can intercept emails, and there were 87 dating back to January 2002, which we've never received on download. Over 60 of them were addressed to Brenda, Steve, Bob, Kevin, Alice and various other people before the @ in our email address, including aw-confirm, which should have ebay.com after it. We only have accounts in my name and DHs, so they wouldn't download. They all had viruses/trojans/worms attached, so it's just as well that we didn't receive them. Don't know why the others didn't download. With attachments, they totalled a lot of Megabytes, so they'd fill our mail box. Now we've deleted them via that web site, we're connecting and authorizing like lightening, and emails are downloading again. With the amount of virus activity going on at the moment, we'll be checking once a week and deleting anything that's left in there. We can acess the web site from any computer, read, reply to and delete emails from this web site, so we won't need a web-based email account if we travel. Don't know if it will work for all ISPs or for any other email program than Outlook Express, but it's worth a try if you think you're having difficulties. Steps are www.mail2web.com , then click on advanced login. In the top box that appears, we type pop.freeserve.com, because our incoming mail is a POP3 server, and that's what's stated in Outlook Express - properties - connection. In the middle box, our email address *after* the @ symbol and in the bottom box, our ISP password. Click Check Mail. If you want to read the messages, each one opens in a new window, so close the window after reading. Mark messages for deletion and click Delete at bottom of page, confirm the deletion at the bottom of the new window. Click check the new mail link, then click log off/change user near top left of window and that's it. Hope this might help some of you. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
