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[James]

You will not be surprised that eight years after retirement, everything seems to have been a dream.

I couldn't help but identify with that statement, Fulvio. I retired from education in 99... eleven years ago! And your words..."seems to have been a dream"... spoke loud and clear to me. Indeed... after 32 years in the classroom these eleven years later make that time appear as though they were in a dream. In fact, I sometimes dream I've been asked to go back to the classroom and frankly, the dream becomes a nightmare.

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[Fulvio]

After having only TB3.1.6, for a while, I reinstalled TB2.0.0.24, which is my default. But, I use, also 3.1.6 (installed in a different directory, and run with a different profile, mainly for comparison. I have been using of and on Seamonkey2.0.10, and Outlook Express, with only one account, only for trouble shooting, since Cox does not support TB (meaning that most techies do not know enough about it).

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[Fulvio]

Today, I had another encounter with 3.1.6, which makes me wonder.
I was getting my Yahoo (free) account in TB, with the help of freePOPs, but Yahoo, as other free ISPs are notorious in making changes, so severe that nothing happens after the change. I had not been able to get to my Yahoo account since the end of August. However, 3.1.6 had one up on 2.0.0.24, because it was possible to access Yahoo mail via an addon. When, I tried to get my wife's account, instead of opening two separate tabs, it made a mess. Essentially, it was either one account or the other.
However, some individual at the freePOPs newsgroup suggested that the Yahoo account be set up as an IMAP account. It worked like a charm in 2.0.0.24, but it failed miserably in 3.1.6, when the set up, instantly give me settings for a POP account. As I had said before, it does not matter if I enter the correct settings for the server, if it is listed as POP. I tried all sort of tricks, trying to make changes, but 3.1.6 gave me no option. I had to have a SSL POP account, or nothing. I gave up after four tries.

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[richard mitnick]

Well, Fulvio-

I have to tell you, TBird 3.1.6 has been demoted to second place on the machine where it was the default. The issue was signatures. I need a serious signature which includes my blog and Twitter addresses hyperlinked. It was just too much work, I had to format the lines to keep about 10 lines from becoming just a run-on sentence. I had to get help, which I got at the TBird section of Mozillazine forums. Then, I wanted to drop in a scanned image of my signature, just like I have in Outlook. Too much. Too too much.

So, Outlook, which is really too big for this application on this machine, just made my life easy. I have loved Outlook since it came out in 1997.

So, it is not that I had any problems with TBird working, getting my mail, sending my mail, and, to me, TBird is beautiful, very Apple like in its clean lines (pacem Antony). But, hey, grow up. You want to play with the big boys? Be a big boy. Make life easy, not hard.

I hope that your weather is good.

>>RSM

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[James]

Outlook (2010) and Windows Live Mail (little brother) rock my world. Never a minute of trouble from either program.

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[Fulvio]

I hope that your weather is good.

It had been great, but not today, and it is going to get worse and worse. Likely for us (and not so luckily for our Iowa brethren) we have been getting only a bit of snow, decreasing temps all day, and winds gusting up to 55 mph. Temps will drop to about 0, by night.
Not so great.
As for the Microsoft mail, I am not so enthralled. I had used, successfully, Outlook Express, in the past, but not for the past two to three years. The only reason why I had reinstalled it was because of an issue which I had with one mail accounts, in TB. I had to speak Microsoft to the techie, who told me to remove the account, and reenter it (I had the same problem with OE as with TB). It was a bad idea, because, by default, mail is not left on the server, so I lost a number of messages. The techie had no idea that it would be a problem. The option was selected in the original, but I forgot that everything starts from scratch.
I, never, found out why that account had been targeted, out of five, but it was an issue caused by the antivirus program (AVG).Oh well, OE is sitting there, but I don't dare to use it.

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[James]

Hey, Fulvio. Whatever works for you... that's what to go with. As for me... I've never had a single issue with Microsoft mail... never one issue... and that after almost fifteen years of usage off and on.

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[Fulvio]

So, Fulvio, just to be clear, what email program are you currently using?

Tb 2.0.0.24 is my default mail client. But, I am using, also TB 3.1.7 and SM 2.0.11, with different profiles, and 6-8 accounts of course. Outlook Express 6.x is available, but I don't open it, unless necessary, and I am have only one account set up.

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