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Marc R. Bertrand
Hello,
As part of my Office XP professional package, MS Outlook is there for
me to use. However, I have always used Yahoo and Hotmail. But for some
reason, I feel like I can get better e-mail management and / or
protection with MS Outlook than with Web Mail.
Can someone explain to me the advantages of using MS Outlook before I
go through the nightmarish task of setting it up... Nothing has been
configured in MS Outlook on my PC. I also never went into Control
Panel (I read a few threads) to set anything up.
In MS Outlook, I created a test message just for fun and clicked on
the Send button.... I noticed that 1) Word was opened and 2) the
recipient (me in Hotmail) never received the test message. Of course,
with no MS Outlook account set up, that was bound to happen. Although
at this point, I would have appreciated some sort of an information
message telling me nothing had been sent. I would also have greatly
appreciated a new account setup wizard. But perhaps there are way too
many variations in the setups of MS Outlook accounts and a wizard
would be overly complex, I dont' know.
So, I started messing around with some setup work. When I got to the
"Incoming Mail Server ..." text box and the "Outgoing Mail Server ..."
text box, I thought it was time to close up everything, and I did. I
just have no idea what the heck those are, where to get the
information (although I have a wild guess my ISP could be helpful
there, again reading from those threads), and it would be very smart
of those setup dialog boxes to offer *immediate* and *relevant* help
about where to get the information required in the fields with a few
*real world* examples.
Thanks.
Marc R. Bertrand
As part of my Office XP professional package, MS Outlook is there for
me to use. However, I have always used Yahoo and Hotmail. But for some
reason, I feel like I can get better e-mail management and / or
protection with MS Outlook than with Web Mail.
Can someone explain to me the advantages of using MS Outlook before I
go through the nightmarish task of setting it up... Nothing has been
configured in MS Outlook on my PC. I also never went into Control
Panel (I read a few threads) to set anything up.
In MS Outlook, I created a test message just for fun and clicked on
the Send button.... I noticed that 1) Word was opened and 2) the
recipient (me in Hotmail) never received the test message. Of course,
with no MS Outlook account set up, that was bound to happen. Although
at this point, I would have appreciated some sort of an information
message telling me nothing had been sent. I would also have greatly
appreciated a new account setup wizard. But perhaps there are way too
many variations in the setups of MS Outlook accounts and a wizard
would be overly complex, I dont' know.
So, I started messing around with some setup work. When I got to the
"Incoming Mail Server ..." text box and the "Outgoing Mail Server ..."
text box, I thought it was time to close up everything, and I did. I
just have no idea what the heck those are, where to get the
information (although I have a wild guess my ISP could be helpful
there, again reading from those threads), and it would be very smart
of those setup dialog boxes to offer *immediate* and *relevant* help
about where to get the information required in the fields with a few
*real world* examples.
Thanks.
Marc R. Bertrand