Subscriber and long-time reader Scott Adler wrote to me about his experiences with three of the various anti-spam programs. I’ve used Mailwasher Pro and PopFile and like both, but they are entirely different in their approach to spam. My current choice is PopFile. I’ve also mentioned iHateSpam, which is from the same company that offers [...]
Sherrill Kerbaugh wrote about a major problem she and her husband were having on both of their computers: Hi, Terry… We have a major problem…. My husband has been unable to delete daily e-mails for a few weeks now….we can’t figure out what in the world is wrong!?!?!?! Now, all of a sudden I can’t [...]
Several people recently have had the emails, that they sent, fall victim to spam filters somewhere before getting to their recipients. In one case of which I know, the email was sent to a mailing list. Many mailing list programs have filtering routines that are designed to block unwanted messages — not just blocking unsolicited [...]
I received an email recently from a reader who was having problems with Outlook Express. As I have written several times recently, when you delete emails, they’re not really deleted — even if you “empty the deleted emails folder.” Your email program still has the email in its data file — it has only marked [...]
I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express. Maria wrote: Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added [...]
I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express. Maria wrote: Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added [...]
There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that? All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that [...]
There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that? Outlook and Outlook Express store all the emails in one huge file, even if you have your emails split between [...]