So what's better that also will sync with pda and palm and fone?
-Original Message-
From: Tom Piwowar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: ridda aol yeecch!
>You obviously haven't used Outlook this century. Outlook 2007 is very
>stable and non
>You obviously haven't used Outlook this century. Outlook 2007 is very
>stable and non-buggy and my users are bugging me (no pun) to get it.
>Everyone that has been upgraded from Office 2003 loves the new version
>of Office. Unlike previous versions of Office, it actually is worth
>buying.
I won
> So you are a Redmund dead-ender? Outlook costs $$$. The better
> alternatives are free, either advertising supported or open source. Yet
> you describe them as $$$ and you cling to MS's buggy behemoth from the
> last century.
You obviously haven't used Outlook this century. Outlook 2007 is very
> There is also the $$$ of having to maintain Outlook's quaint and fragile
> database. MS puts everything in one humongous file that needs to be
> regularly verified and compressed. Hit a serious glitch and lose
> absolutely everything.
I have over 50 GBs of active Outlook .pst files on my network
>But she's already got it and otherwise is not interested in $$$ for
>something else...the opera client is a little clunky but cud doo...eh?
So you are a Redmund dead-ender? Outlook costs $$$. The better
alternatives are free, either advertising supported or open source. Yet
you describe them as
The Mozilla product that includes the email client is Seamonkey.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
But most Mozilla users use Firefox and Thunderbird.
RLeeSimon wrote:
Then wat?
I need also to change her browser ...she's got win2k and it doesn't allow
upgrade to ie7 so wassabest? Fire
I have an AIM account that I got a few years ago. AOL gave free POP/IMAP
email accounts to AIM users. Her AOL account probably also has POP/IMAP
access. Try this setup:
Incoming mail server:
* imap.aol.com or imap.aim.com for IMAP
* pop.aol.com or pop.aim.com for POP
Outgoing mail (SMTP
Install them all and see which you like. Chevy? Ford? Pontiac? Toyota?
Ferrari?
Depends Mainly on whether she likes to see all the controls that can be
tweaked, or likes to keep them hidden and accept default behavior.
At 03:51 PM 11/16/2008, RLeeSimon wrote:
>I need also to change her bro
Don't fight boys...I just wanna helpout my sis...
-Original Message-
From: Chris Dunford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: ridda aol yeecch!
> >Nonresponsive. The question was, "how do I?".
>
> Who's really being "Nonresponsive"? If you were
>Not really. The question was "How do I move the AOL mail to Outlook".
>Period. Your response was, "Outlook sux." If you had other options to
>suggest, fine--make them. You didn't. The response has zero value. It did
>not help the questioner in any way. That's my point.
Friends don't let friends
> >Nonresponsive. The question was, "how do I?".
>
> Who's really being "Nonresponsive"? If you were doing this to yourself
> that would be another matter. We might laugh at your quaint ideas, but
> since you were only hurting yourself we would let you go ahead. We
> might even help you do it as a
address book to outlook.
http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/
this should help moving email to outlook.
http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et122204.htm
Mike
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:31 PM, RLeeSimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my sister ha
>I need also to change her browser ...she's got win2k and it doesn't allow
>upgrade to ie7 so wassabest? Firefox,mozilla,opera(which has an email
>client in it)?
The current version of FireFox (v 3) works fine with Win2K.
You may have gotten ridda of AOL, but you still have that Microsoft
monke
>Yeah but she already has a lotta emails stored in her file cabinet in aol
>and wants to keep them...somewhere. She can keep the aol email addresses,
>but has already started a gmail account which works for her.
X will fetch email (old and new) from Y. It does contacts too.
Substitute "AOL" "Yah
>Nonresponsive. The question was, "how do I?".
Who's really being "Nonresponsive"? If you were doing this to yourself
that would be another matter. We might laugh at your quaint ideas, but
since you were only hurting yourself we would let you go ahead. We might
even help you do it as a source o
Yeah but she already has a lotta emails stored in her file cabinet in aol
and wants to keep them...somewhere. She can keep the aol email addresses,
but has already started a gmail account which works for her.
-Original Message-
From: Tony B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, Novembe
Then wat?
I need also to change her browser ...she's got win2k and it doesn't allow
upgrade to ie7 so wassabest? Firefox,mozilla,opera(which has an email
client in it)?
-Original Message-
From: Tom Piwowar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: r
Sometimes the _correct_ answer isn't a _direct_ answer. Or the answer
you want to hear.
Minus the faxes (which is probably much easier to do with a fax
machine), all these things can be done in any modern AJAX web mail
client like Yahoo, Gmail, or AOL. Actually, I think they can all
_send_ faxes t
> First tell her to not use Outlook.
Nonresponsive. The question was, "how do I?".
> Outlook offers nothing uniquely useful for a home user.
That's true, unless you count email, calendar/appointments/reminders,
contacts, fax, mailing lists, tasks/to-do lists, RSS, and notes.
My wife's life wo
Right. If I recall correctly, AOL no longer charges for email
accounts, so she can continue to use the AOL web interface which she's
likely used to.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>what shuddi tell her now?
>
> First tell her to not use Outlook. Moving f
>what shuddi tell her now?
First tell her to not use Outlook. Moving from AOL to Outlook is just
moving from one big bugfest to another big bugfest. Outlook offers
nothing uniquely useful for a home user.
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** List info,
my sister has aol she used to get verizon dsl ...now she got fios from
verizon directly...
1.how to move all the accumulated email messages to outlook
2.how to export address book to outlook
3.how to get ridda that aol for good
these are what I would like to help her do...years ago
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