e-mail help

[fisherman194 702]

spend half an hour typing out an e-mail with one finger, press send does not say it has been sent is not in my sent section in fact it has vanished did it go? or anyone know whats wrong second time its happened same e-mail address also coincidence she has sent me one and did not arrive any ideas guys

[Samsonite 181]

What e-mail software are you using?

Is the delete button close to the send button?

[x_man 0]

if you use yahoo, you have to confirm after pressing send button.

[js007 795]

Until you get it worked out and before you waste any more time, maybe you should compose and save the email in a word processor. Then, you can copy it into the email program. If you lose it, you still have your back up.

 

J

[fisherman194 702]

Scalawag no not near delete button using msn hotmail is 007 am not very computer literate your advice with thanks cant do

[Samsonite 181]

Scalawag no not near delete button using msn hotmail is 007 am not very computer literate your advice with thanks cant do

Sorry, I haven't used Hotmail in years. When microsoft bought the company it went downhill and I closed the account.

Perhaps someone here is familiar with Hotmail. Good luck.

[starry 0]

I use hotmail ,tells you on next page it has been sent ,but if you have wrong e-mail address it comes back by postmaster general ,telling you why ,but if hotmail adress is used by someone then you get no comeback ,if that,s any help.

[Sailfast 503]

Maybe switch to Gmail. Gmail has auto back up every few seconds to save your work.

[joekicker 53]

fisherman, Hotmail is the worst of the available choices. Yahoo is good and in my opinion Google mail (Gmail.com) is far, far better.

 

Open a new account with one of the above. Heck, try them both and see which you like better. Tell your email correspondents. Send ALL your new mail from your new account. After a while, close the Hotmail one entirely.

 

It's kind of like moving house - it's annoying to change addresses and phone numbers and so on, but once you settle in, everything is okay.

 

The other good advice is to type out your email in, say, Notepad or even Microsoft Word first. THEN, you can copy and paste it into the email program and you never lose it.

 

Another trick is to "CC" yourself - so you know if the mail went out, anyway.

[brotherbuzz 3,196]

if you use yahoo, you have to confirm after pressing send button.

 

I'm guessing that's OS specific cuz there's no confirm when I use Yahoo mail.

 

fisherman194, thought maybe you sent to a wrong email addy so I just tried sending to a bad email addy (xxxx@yahoo.von) and it sent, saved, and came back as delivery failure. No clue why yours didn't work but for me Hotmail is working fine.

 

I don't see an auto-save feature but there is a checkbox for saving sent mail in the 'options' section. Make sure it's set to on.

[Samsonite 181]

I don't see an auto-save feature but there is a checkbox for saving sent mail in the 'options' section. Make sure it's set to on.

Ah! Thank you for reminding me.

The last time I used Hotmail, a long time ago, but after microsoft bought it and changed it, you had to specifically, each and every time you sent e-mail, tell Hotmail to save a copy to your sent box (or out box). There was no provision for doing it automatically. I don't know if that is still the case.

Edited May 18, 2008 by Scalawag

[irishman 0]

I sometimes have that problem when I'm using a really slow connection like at one of the cheap internet cafes! Yes, you should save everything to the clipboard before you send the message but if you forget to save it first, you can try Control - Z. to go back one level. It seems to work about half the time!

 

Cheers

[brotherbuzz 3,196]

Ah! Thank you for reminding me.

The last time I used Hotmail, a long time ago, but after microsoft bought it and changed it, you had to specifically, each and every time you sent e-mail, tell Hotmail to save a copy to your sent box (or out box). There was no provision for doing it automatically. I don't know if that is still the case.

 

I didn't word my reply too well. Hotmail will auto-save sent mail if the box in options is set, and I'm guessing it's a default cuz I never set it manually. What I meant by auto-save in the other reply was a an auto-backup every few seconds like Gmail.

 

I don't use Hotmail for email either. Never liked having to type "......@hotmail" each logon. I needed the account for Messenger.

[mykl 72]

I second the vote for gmail. By far the best service I have used. You can also set up gmail to collect mail from any POP account. I use Thunderbird as my email client to collect mail from all my accounts and I also use gmail as my smtp client to send mail. Works great, I love it.

[joekicker 53]

mykl Exactly. You can do anything with Gmail - collect other accounts into it, collect all accounts from it, use it with or without a client, use it for SMTP only.... really, truly up to you! Plus 6.8 gigs of space and growing daily.

 

Everyone needs choices and no software suits all people all the time, but Gmail is a dynamite app.

[Eneukman 1]

if you use yahoo, you have to confirm after pressing send button.

 

I use Yahoo and I don't have to confirm after pressing the send button. I do, however, get a message confirming that my e-mail has been sent.

 

fisherman, Hotmail is the worst of the available choices. Yahoo is good and in my opinion Google mail (Gmail.com) is far, far better.

 

Open a new account with one of the above. Heck, try them both and see which you like better. Tell your email correspondents. Send ALL your new mail from your new account. After a while, close the Hotmail one entirely.

 

It's kind of like moving house - it's annoying to change addresses and phone numbers and so on, but once you settle in, everything is okay.

 

The other good advice is to type out your email in, say, Notepad or even Microsoft Word first. THEN, you can copy and paste it into the email program and you never lose it.

 

Another trick is to "CC" yourself - so you know if the mail went out, anyway.

 

I would re-iterate the advice to type out longer e-mails in Word or whatever and then copy and paste it though any formatting you may have done won't copy over - at least not with Yahoo. I lost a lengthy e-mail just a couple of days ago because I didn't do that! Needless to say, it was retyped in Word!

 

Alan

[mykl 72]

mykl Exactly. You can do anything with Gmail - collect other accounts into it, collect all accounts from it, use it with or without a client, use it for SMTP only.... really, truly up to you! Plus 6.8 gigs of space and growing daily.

 

Everyone needs choices and no software suits all people all the time, but Gmail is a dynamite app.

 

If you use Firefox there is an extension called GSpace that opens in a new tab with a file manager that accesses your gmail storage. This allows you to quickly and simply upload your photos to your gmail storage area. Transfering a 2.5 meg jpg photo over broadbad takes about 20 - 30 seconds. If you transfer all your photos and then use a secure wipe utility to delete them from your hard drive and memory stick you then have nothing on your person or in your luggage for customs/immigration to object to. You can have multiple gmail accounts with 6+ gigabytes of storage available on each one. Gmail has a ten meg size limit on file attachments so you might not be able to transfer some vids but it should handle any jpeg photos nicely. When you get home you simply download them back onto permanant storage media. GSpace is not even version 1 yet so there are some rough edges but it does indeed perform as advertised. It will also run comfortably on a thumbdrive using portable Firefox. Try it, you'll like it.

[joekicker 53]

Oh, I know you people are so proud of your Firefox, but actually GMail Drive is ... well the word "better" is subjective, but well, it's better.

 

GMail simply seems to make another drive on your computer that is actually your Gmail account. You just drag files into it or out of it like any other drive. You can make virtual folders as well.

 

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

 

You don't need Firefox. You don't need anything at all apart from Windows.

[mykl 72]

Oh, I know you people are so proud of your Firefox, but actually GMail Drive is ... well the word "better" is subjective, but well, it's better.

 

GMail simply seems to make another drive on your computer that is actually your Gmail account. You just drag files into it or out of it like any other drive. You can make virtual folders as well.

 

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

 

You don't need Firefox. You don't need anything at all apart from Windows.

 

I've used gmail drive and it is a nice little utility but it requires its own executable installed on your drive. Any customs agent that looks at your computer is going to see it since it is right there in plain view. GSpace runs in a tab in Firefox. That means you can run it from a thumb drive, which can be plugged into any computer that has a usb port. The main use I am thinking of is storing any pictures you don't want to carry through customs/immigration. Once you have uploaded the pics using firefox on a thumbdrive you can destroy the thumbdrive and the memory card, if you are really that paranoid, and there is simply nothing for them to find, no matter how hard they search. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Gmail Drive allows you to access multiple accounts. GSpace will let you access as many as you want. Both have their uses but for this particular task I think GSpace is the better choice. YMMV

[eltib 54]

Sorry, I haven't used Hotmail in years. When microsoft bought the company it went downhill and I closed the account.

 

+1

 

And I'll be doing the same if MS ever buys Yahoo. Yahoo mail will become shit too.

[joekicker 53]

GMail Drive accesses whatever Gmail account you're logged into, as many as you want. 7 gigs is enough for me so I don't have much experience switching, but I set it up originally on each of three accounts,so I know you can do it.

 

YMMV indeed. I don't put the stuff that can send me to jail there, heh. I do keep archives of very boring stuff on it, that any Customs agent would be welcome to if she were unlucky enough to come across it which would be unlikely in the extreme.

 

My problem isn't with GSpace, it's with browser-specific stuff. God didn't invent the Internet with that in mind. Sometimes, all you have is an Apple and Safari or Unix and Lynx, or your Mom's Windows and IE. On the Net, everything should work with everything.

 

The desktop, we have lots of choices. They are PERSONAL computers. On the Net, everything should work no matter what.

[Samsonite 181]

+1

And I'll be doing the same if MS ever buys Yahoo. Yahoo mail will become shit too.

Yep.

It has been many years so I don't remember all the specifics, but when microsoft first bought Hotmail they tried running it on their own operating system, probably a version of NT. It crashed repeatedly and the service was up and down like a yo-yo.

Finally, to have any credibility, they ran it on FreeBSD and did so for at least a couple of years, if not longer, until they could get greater stability from their own operating system.

They don't call it "mickeysoft" for nothing, you know.

Edited May 18, 2008 by Scalawag