Mozilla Thunderbird , mainly because of the better security & built in spam tools.

Okay, let's see if I have this correct. I download Mozilla Thunderbird, and follow prompts, right??

The time I did the Outlook Express, the tech guy had to walk me through this. HOw do I do this Thunderbird thing alone. Will it change my stuff in Outlook and bring it over to Thunderbird??

Do you understand what I'm trying to learn here?? Thanks so much.

Melody

If I remember correctly it will import the address book and the mail settings during the set up/install
Pretty much like the firefox did with the IE settings and favorites.

but if you get stuck or the settings don't get transferred just ask
I'll find the verizon central email section that has the info you need
http://netservices.verizon.net/porta...oblem=settings


User name settings

* Your user name (for example, username@verizon.net)
* Your password


Mail server settings

* Incoming mail server (POP3): incoming.yahoo.verizon.net
* Outgoing mail server (SMTP): outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net
* Your user name
* Your password

the messages themselves - if you have any saved you can import them at any time or just keep OE and open it if you need to look up the saved stuff.

This will be easier that the very first time with OE because of the importing during setup /install

Well, I don't know if I'm coming or going, but I'll give it a try.

Wish me luck,

I'll update later.

Melody.

P.S. Thanks so much

Okay, now I'm totally confused.

I did exactly as you said. I downloaded it, I imported all the stuff, it prompted me if I wanted to use Mozilla Thunderbird as my default e-mail client. I said yes.

Then it opened up Alan's e-mail.

Now in outlook express, Alan's email was the primary email and we had two other sub accounts. mine was: let's use... MelodyLub@verizon.net

Now, when I would sign on to Outlook express, there would be my husband's email up on the screen. Then I would go to File, switch identity, click on the name Melody, and it would immediately switch to my e-mail.

So just now, I have Alan's email up on the screen, I go to File, and THERE IS NO SWITCH IDENTITY!!!!

So please tell me how I get my own email through thunderbird???

UPDATE....UPDATE....UPDATE....UPDATE......

I just went to Thunderbird and guess what?? It combined my husband's email and my email. Now why on earth would it do that.

There are 85 emails in this thing. Some are Alan's and some are mine.

Oh my god.
Please help me before I have a breakdown... lol

NEVER MIND!!!! I just uninstalled the entire thing. Outlook Express is now, once again, my default program. Why did I do this?? Because I'm 60 years old, and I know Outlook Express. When I saw 85 combined emails, I pictured Alan's face and said "this is not worth it". He likes stuff nice and easy on the computer.

I know that there had to be a way to separate the accounts, and we each have our own, but until I learned how to do this, I will turn 70 years old. lol.

Jo, thanks so much.

If I don't lose my mind over this, I turn 60 on November 4th.
Oh thank god, I still get Outlook Express. I almost lost my mind. Two hours on this stuff. Going to watch my soaps.

Melody

Ahhh, I see yes that would be a little bit tricky.
I was assuming you each had separate profiles on the whole computer, I forgot about OE having having the switch identity thing.

Well if in the future you want to try again or if OE is messing up again there are a couple ways around the identity thing.

Either set up 2 Tbird accounts - 1 for each of you and give them a name {rename the icon} so you know which is which. like Alans email & Mels email

Or set it up like I have on my computer-

What I did on my computer is set up separate User Accounts in the control panel for each of us - hubby, daughter, boys and me. There's also a Guest account if you have anyone else that might use it.
The welcome screen opens up and we each have our own icon to click and then log onto, you can have a password or not.
I log on to my account/profile and they can each log on to theirs.
I am the administrator for the computer, the others have limited accounts.
That also keeps anyone from making problematic changes or deleting anything of mine or messing up the computer.

So if you did that your email would only be on your side and his would only be on his side.

Anyway that's a whole other topic LOL

Jo:

I have no idea why I thought that I would have my own e-mail and Alan would have his. I really thought "well, I'll download Thunderbird, and I'll switch identity", like in Outlook. Don't think so!!!

And when I told Alan what happened, all he could say was "oh my god, is my email still there??" I said "not to worry, I restored everything back and you have yours and I have mine'.

I can only imagine him sitting down to 147 e-mails and not knowing which belonged to who!!!! Like I said "he likes this easy" on the computer.

While I'm walking through Window Updates, my husband likes to go on Youtube.

I will never forget last year. I have no idea what was happening, but my computer wasn't doing what it was supposed to do.

I called my computer genius son (who was laying on his bed and was NOT in front of his computer). He said "have you done any window updates? and I said "oh, it does it by itself, when I sign off". He sighed and said "go in front of your computer". Then he must have walked me through 100 steps, one after the other, (all the while, laying on his bed). I thought he was in front of his own computer doing the same thing. When I got to the last step, I asked him "you were doing this while I was doing mine, right?" and he said "No, I'm laying on the bed". I said 'what do you mean, you just walked me through 100 steps (over 45 minutes, believe me), and where the heck were you? and he said 'lying down, I was picturing your computer screen in my head.

See, he has Aspergers Disorder, he's a computer genius and he knows absolutely everything about computers. You might be thinking, why didn't I go to him instead of going on this board?

If you think I'm going to ask him to walk me through setting up an email account and have him laugh his *** off at me, well forget it.

So he's an aspie, he can probably build his own computer. He runs configs (whatever that is). Too bad he doesn't work. He would be some tech support person. Oh well.

I can't thank you enough.

Melody

I thought this started out as a noise problem. I know that fans can become quite noisy, especially if a bearing is burning out. How did it become an OE versus Thunderbird argument? You can get inexpensive replacement fans that are fairly easy to install.

could be vibrations from many sorces wires fan hard drive, hopefully you clean it out reguraly vacuum the dust bummys from fans and vents cause a clotted fan will also make noise too

we got the noise thing figured out and she had another question about emails.