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[ellen_datlow]

And yet again, my outlook email has been crashing as it tries to download my 200 or so saved emails from my trip. Which means I now have about 8 copies of some emails there. And that I can't go in there again till Jim Freund and I see what the effing problem is with pc anywhere tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, I can access my email through webmail but what a pain. I may have to leave outlook if we can't figure out why it does this. (I turned off the email scanner as that helped last time, but no such luck this time--it has gotten almost halfway through but no further. Blghhhh.
Glad to me home and Bella has been laying all over me and the keyboard (no, she's not the reason it crashes ;-) ).
Unpacking and catching up on stuff.

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[joeicarus.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I've been using the latest version of Thunderbird for the last six months or so, and I've been happy with it. Outlook used to give me all sorts of problems with my e-mail accounts as well. It would work for months and then suddenly decide it couldn't read an account at all for no discernible reason.

I still use Outlook on my PocketPC, but I never really sync my pocket pc with my laptop anyway.

In case you're interested:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks Charles and thanks Joe...
I know Jim mentioned thunderbird but there was something else too...

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

There's also Opera Mail (http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/m2/) although I haven't tried it.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thanks.

[halspacejock.livejournal.com]

Alternatively you might like to set up a free Gmail account and use webmail instead of a PC mail client - you could access all your mail from any browser window then.

(I'm firmly in the 'use an email client' myself, because I loathe webmail thanks to its lack of flexibility. However, it is an option for many.)

I mentioned Thunderbird below, which is one option. You could also install my freeware yMail2 client and just use it to block & kill off (from the ISP's server) whichever of those 200 emails is causing Outlook to crash. Then download the other 199 into Outlook.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Oh nonnononono. I hate webmail. That's what I'm currently using (my isp's--bway.net) until outlook is fixed.

I already deleted everything I didn't need while traveling. What's left are the items I DO need and need to have in specific folders.

[medievalist.livejournal.com]

If you haven't actually tried GMail, you might; it's not like Web mail.

And you can do things like have your email forwarded there, or elsewhere, and always have a backup.

And you can have a copy at gmail, and download one locally with an email client.