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Pete

Hi guys,

Sorry for the confusion on the last OE post (it was due to the particular
way I use OE). As a follow up, I have provided a couple discussion items
below.

First - The reason I don't use the preview pane for e-mails (I do use it for
ng's) is because I could never figure out how to touch an incoming e-mail
(with either the left or right mouse button without having it open in the
preview pane - and therefore there goes the golden rule about do not open
e-mails from strangers). So how would you delete it if you can't highlight
it. If you uncheck the preview pane you can single click it to delete it
(or whatever else you want to do), or double click it to read it. Is there
a way to use the preview pane for e-mails without opening the damn message
when you touch it with the mouse (if you want to delete it). I hope I
haven't been dense about this all this time.

Second - In newsgroups, when you view a list of newsgroups on a ng server,
it truncates all the ng's with long titles and puts "........" after the
truncation so you can't see what the name of the newsgroup is. A good
example is this - type "outlook express" in the search window and you get
hordes of microsoft.public ng's which have truncated titles and you can't
see what the hell they are unless you subscribe to them one by one to view
the title. What a real pain in the ass that is. I have tried everything to
try to get the complete title to show in the search results (right click
etc.) and I have never figured it out. Am I being dense about this also.

Thanks...Pete
 
BG said:
Resize the "Newsgroup Subscriptions" window, then resize the
"Newgroup" column (move the mouse to the left of the word
"Description")
Click to expand...

BG...thanks a lot. Damn it. I should have known that. I feel like a
shmuck :-) . Any ideas on my first question...Pete
 
Thanks for the good info Wes...I will save it. Good hearing from you again.
Any ideas on my first question...Pete
 
Hi Pete,

I use Read all messages in plain text. I use the preview pane. If there
are messages in my Suspect folder and the Sender isn't known, I just right
click and Delete. I don't even pause to read the messages. Comcast traps
most of the spam, that and my Message Rules, so very few unwanted messages
get through. Except for my Uncle Wayne's forwarded jokes and crap. ;-)

Maybe I've been lucky, but most bad stuff isn't gonna take place in plain
text.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Hi guys,

Sorry for the confusion on the last OE post (it was due to the particular
way I use OE). As a follow up, I have provided a couple discussion items
below.

First - The reason I don't use the preview pane for e-mails (I do use it for
ng's) is because I could never figure out how to touch an incoming e-mail
(with either the left or right mouse button without having it open in the
preview pane - and therefore there goes the golden rule about do not open
e-mails from strangers). So how would you delete it if you can't highlight
it. If you uncheck the preview pane you can single click it to delete it
(or whatever else you want to do), or double click it to read it. Is there
a way to use the preview pane for e-mails without opening the damn message
when you touch it with the mouse (if you want to delete it). I hope I
haven't been dense about this all this time.

Second - In newsgroups, when you view a list of newsgroups on a ng server,
it truncates all the ng's with long titles and puts "........" after the
truncation so you can't see what the name of the newsgroup is. A good
example is this - type "outlook express" in the search window and you get
hordes of microsoft.public ng's which have truncated titles and you can't
see what the hell they are unless you subscribe to them one by one to view
the title. What a real pain in the ass that is. I have tried everything to
try to get the complete title to show in the search results (right click
etc.) and I have never figured it out. Am I being dense about this also.

Thanks...Pete
Click to expand...

Suggestions for first question:
-Read email using plain text. Boring but safe.

-Use Outlook or another email program that lets you toggle "reading pane"
and/or toggle HTML on or off using a button on a toolbar.

I see that Wes and BG have you covered on your other question. :)
 
Sharon F said:
Suggestions for first question:
-Read email using plain text. Boring but safe.

-Use Outlook or another email program that lets you toggle "reading
pane" and/or toggle HTML on or off using a button on a toolbar.
Click to expand...

In OE you can put the Preview button on the Toolbar and toggle the Preview
pane on and off.
 
You beat me to it, I was just going to mention that, which is the way I
view emails.<g> I have Mailwasher so I actually only bring in mail that I
want to OE but still toggle the preview button to off when first bringing
it in.
Joan
 
Sharon said:
Suggestions for first question:
-Read email using plain text. Boring but safe.
Click to expand...

Thanks to all of you...I understand that. I leave my plain text box
unchecked, otherwise it disables various "OE-quote fix" features that I like
:-) . I will just leave my preview pane off for my e-mails like I always
have. It's not a big deal, because I don't get many e-mails anyway. I'm a
newsgroup person...Pete
 
Thanks to all of you...I understand that. I leave my plain text box
unchecked, otherwise it disables various "OE-quote fix" features that I like
:-) . I will just leave my preview pane off for my e-mails like I always
have. It's not a big deal, because I don't get many e-mails anyway. I'm a
newsgroup person...Pete
Click to expand...

I hope you saw Frank and Joan's posts about the preview button. Click to
turn off preview. Sort mail to toss out things you don't want. Click button
to turn on preview and read remaining mail. Easy-peasy! ;)
 
Sharon said:
I hope you saw Frank and Joan's posts about the preview button. Click
to turn off preview. Sort mail to toss out things you don't want.
Click button to turn on preview and read remaining mail. Easy-peasy!
;)
Click to expand...

Thanks Sharon...I saw them, and I have already put the preview button on my
toolbar :-) .

Pete
 
Joan Archer said:
You beat me to it, I was just going to mention that, which is the way
I view emails.<g> I have Mailwasher so I actually only bring in mail
that I want to OE but still toggle the preview button to off when
first bringing it in.
Joan
Click to expand...

I don't use any anti-spam program - I only get around 300 per day. I do,
however, have a lot of message rule moving things to different folders.
 
I do use message rules for my email so they go to their own folders but I
still like Mailwasher so I can check my five or so accounts before
downloading to my machine. <g>
Joan
 
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