Emailing photos

[dudwell]

Give this a whirl, so very similar to outlook express.

http://www.emclient.com/download

Thanks Sobranie. I can't cope with another programme right now but I'll try yours if I really can't succeed with Thunderbird.

[Simon]

Try turning authentication off, Dud.  Also, you should be able to find the correct settings here, even if it doesn't show the current Thunderbird version:

http://www.idnet.net/support/guides/email/thunderbird.jsp

[dudwell]

Try turning authentication off, Dud.  Also, you should be able to find the correct settings here, even if it doesn't show the current Thunderbird version:

http://www.idnet.net/support/guides/email/thunderbird.jsp

Already says "No authentication" for Outgoing Server (SMTP).

Have studied settings over and over, giving up for now

[Technical Ben]

Sorry to hear that. I've only ever used Thunderbird with IDNet, and had no trouble. :/

[Rik]

You could forward all the mailboxes to the IDNet account, then simply set the reply to to the individual addresses...

[dudwell]

And the winner is.........sobranie with eM Client! Set up and working OK in moments. Mind you, I had to ride roughshod over some rather scary warnings on the way. A karma coming

[sobranie]

Oooooooooo ......... ta muchly dw.

[sobranie]

jftr I had the devil's own job trying to set up Thunderbird/idnet.  Eventually manged to set things up manually, worked fine for a few weeks and then fell over.
I now use incredimail and am considering buying the full version thus dumping all the cheesy addons.  If I do not decide to buy it then I'll sneak along to em Client as I still have an account with them.

[Technical Ben]

I don't particularly remember, but I think Thunderbird tries to default something in the naming system. I hate any software that decides "it's/the programmers" way of doing things is best, and to top it off it's "automatically" done too.

[sobranie]

I don't particularly remember, but I think Thunderbird tries to default something in the naming system. I hate any software that decides "it's/the programmers" way of doing things is best, and to top it off it's "automatically" done too.

IDNet settings are of course mail.idnet.com and smtp.idnet.com.  Thunderbird automatically sticks something else in which louses up the works and it's luck of the draw if you can get the client to accept what you want (even on manual).  I found quite a lot of people moaning about this on Google some time back.
I believe TB fell over after an update and I couldn't be arsed to try and fix it anymore. 

[Niall]

I prefer not to email photos, unless they're of people that request them from me, then I used Outlook 2010. Otherwise I use flickr for hosting on my pro account, and limit who can see what. Much easier, and only costs something like £20 a year.

[dudwell]

I was delighted with free eM Client for two whole days then I discovered that it's restricted to 2 email accounts and I wanted 4. Back to the keyboard!

[dudwell]

I was delighted with free eM Client for two whole days then I discovered that it's restricted to 2 email accounts and I wanted 4. Back to the keyboard!

After overnight reflection I realise that if I scrap one little-used idnet.com account I can use eM Client for the remaining two and my browser for a Hotmail account. So I won't be needing to delete the karma I awarded sobranie after all! (Just joking that last bit).

[Rik]

Or forward that email addy to another?

[dudwell]

I'll find out how to do that, thanks Rik. Sorry I didn't get around to trying your suggestion of Pegasus by the way.

[Rik]

That's OK, it's very old-style, but very flexible.