POP Accounts

[Danny]

Before and against my better judgement, I move my mail client from OE to
Outlook 2003 professional, what poblems can I expect to encounter that I
don't have now? I will be accessing as now, two comcast pop accounts and one
gmail which is also a pop account. What I'm really after is the + daisy chain
for contact groups that Outlook has. I would still be using hotmail, but MS
really put the pressure on using hotmail with OE some time ago and by the
time they relinquished to those who were grandfathered in, I was gone.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Before and against my better judgement, I move my mail client from OE
to Outlook 2003 professional, what poblems can I expect to encounter
that I don't have now? I will be accessing as now, two comcast pop
accounts and one gmail which is also a pop account. What I'm really
after is the + daisy chain for contact groups that Outlook has. I
would still be using hotmail, but MS really put the pressure on using
hotmail with OE some time ago and by the time they relinquished to
those who were grandfathered in, I was gone.

What's "+ daisy chain"?

 

[Danny]

If you have groups made up in your address book and use them to mass send
mail, then with some mail clients, like Outlook, Encredimail, etc, a + will
appear to the left of the group. When you click on it, all the names in that
group will appear, where as you can now remove anyone from that group such as
the original sender. Hope that helped.

 

[Brian Tillman]

If you have groups made up in your address book and use them to mass
send mail, then with some mail clients, like Outlook, Encredimail,
etc, a + will appear to the left of the group. When you click on it,
all the names in that group will appear, where as you can now remove
anyone from that group such as the original sender. Hope that helped.

You're referring to a Distribution List. In your original message you said,
"I will be accessing as now, two comcast pop accounts and one gmail which is
also a pop account. What I'm really after is the + daisy chainfor contact
groups that Outlook has." If Outlook already has this feature, as you
correctly observe, where are you "looking for" it? I don't understand what
you can't do that you believe you should.

 

[Danny]

I'm simply stating the reason I might want to change over from OE to Outlook
but I had problems before with accessing POP accounts and wondered how things
were working there nowadays before I went through this process of trying it
again.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm simply stating the reason I might want to change over from OE to
Outlook but I had problems before with accessing POP accounts and
wondered how things were working there nowadays before I went through
this process of trying it again.

Outlook has always been able to access POP accounts. Even Outlook 97 would
do it. Problems usually occur only when something interferes with the
communication between Outlook and the server, like AV mail scanners or
third-party antispam apps.

 

[Danny]

OK, I'm going to try it again and see how it goes. Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

OK, I'm going to try it again and see how it goes. Thanks!

Keep in mind that gmail requires a setting that's accessed by the web
interface before it will allow POP access.

 

[Danny]

Yes, thanks, I do remember that and Outlook is crying about it as we speak.

 

[Danny]

OK, I've configured and am running with Outlook 2003 Pro as my default. Now
since I have almost 200 contacts, I would really like to have the auto
complete feature, which I haven't found so far. Is there such a thing with
this program? The groups are easy to pick from the addy book, but not
necessarily an indivdual name.

 

[Danny]

Sorry, belay that last message, auto complete just started working for me. I
changed my default from address book to Outlook which had no immediate effect
but then began to work so now I'm not sure what did it without further
testing.

 

[Danny]

Well I thought it started working. Here's the problem, it auto completes for
some names but not all and definetly not for groups.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Well I thought it started working. Here's the problem, it auto
completes for some names but not all and definetly not for groups.

The information you're missing is that the autocompletion has nothing to do
with your Contacts. All it does is record addresses you've resolved. Thus,
it will remember those addresses to which you've sent mail, presenting them
to you again the next time you use them. If you haven't used them, they
won't appear.

 

[Danny]

just when I was getting disgusted you came along and saved the day. Thanks!
I used my everbody group, expanded the names and sent out a test message.
Now they are part of auto complete. Next I'll just send with the group name
which should record that name also, right? The plus side of this is that not
all my contacts have an email addy, so they should never pop up.

 

[Brian Tillman]

just when I was getting disgusted you came along and saved the day.
Thanks! I used my everbody group, expanded the names and sent out a
test message. Now they are part of auto complete. Next I'll just send
with the group name which should record that name also, right?

Yes. I just tried it. The DL name does get stored in the autoc ompletion
cache as well.