The great e-mail war

ComputerWorld sold us a Packard Bell computer. Its supposed to provide independent facilities for the household. It does this about as well as the Microsoft rubbish package that came with it can organise an invitation to the local brewery for a party.

The spam prevention was non existent so we adopted the bt/yahoo package which is very efficient at blocking most of the junk. However this only works for one account. No problem we set up another person, the postman. No problem until I want to move an incoming message to my own desktop and then because the postman is a separate user I find I cannot copy across.

Internet explorer has all sorts of snags so I install Mozilla Firefox which is fantastic in comparison.
Everyone should try Firefox.

Web browsing is fun again. I find sites to send to friends but I can't because I don't have an e-mail package. Go with Mozilla and install Thunderbird.

Until I say I want to make it the default it does not automatically pick up from Firefox. When I do it makes itself the default for all the other users including the postman.

Microsoft and Packard Bell, you have made a package which does not have any of the features for which we bought it.

Moan over, this is a positive blog. The dragon has offered me a router, I have a spare tower, The Ralph has expressed an interest in building hardware. I think the Linux age is rapidly approaching.

Now I'm going to set up the Newsgroup facilities on the Thunderbird.

No progress indoors. Outside is under control. Onward.
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