Desktop E-mail client ?

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 12:23:23 -0800, Mike Easter
wrote:

Brian wrote:
This guy is playing all of you. He is probably about 16 years old and
is just laughing his ass off at how many people keep sticking their
faces into his spinning fan.

I am amazed at how gullible so many people in this forum are.

I believe that he is confused/blinded by his (lack of) 'understanding'
of how AOL mail works.

I have a friend who is similarly confused by how email clients and
webmail actually work, such as the difference between what is happening
when he types into his Tb client vs when he types into gmail's webmail.

In both cases he is typing into something he sees on his screen, so
what's the difference? It is 'right there'.

Add to that mix the similarities and differences that AOL has managed to
blend together in its veg-o-matic and 'this' AOL user can't see the
forest for the trees.

To me, his 'guilt' extends to the point that he COULD get it if he would
("you're not trying hard enough") but since he SHOULD get it, then many
here assume that he *doesn't want to* get it, therefore it is all
intentional, a game, a troll.

I say those many should open their minds to the other possibilities.

Yeah, right......... LOL.

On 2/14/2016 12:52 PM, dadiOH wrote:
Pfsszxt wrote:

cute but not funny. Neither you,nor anyone else, has a resident
e-mail account at Thunderbird. You can list other e-mail eccounts
and T'bird will fetch mail from them. But if one tries their "sign up
for an account" thing one gets referred to something named
"gandhi.net"

OK, one more time...

Of COURSE no one has an account at Thunderbird. That's because Thunderbird
is a resident email CLIENT not a SERVER, a concept which you seem unwilling
or unable to grasp even though your OP was asking about a resident client.


This makes no sense! An e-mail client, as I understand it, is software
with which I can send, receive and forward e-mail correspondence.
And by "resident" I mean installed on my c0mputer.an also
Thunderbird, is in my case "resident". I can also read e-mail there
if I have listed other "clients" from which it gets the mail.
But no one can send e-mail to me at T'bird nor can I initiate
e-mail with a Thunderbird return address.

On 2/15/2016 2:37 AM, Mike S wrote:
On 2/12/2016 1:05 PM, Whomever wrote:
Pfsszxt wrote:

I am indeed old. But fo those who are convinced
that I'm wrong, I dare you:
send me an e-mail with a return address :
whomever@Thunderbird.***
I dare you.

You are a lot more than "old." You are wrong, you are stupid and a troll.

Here ya go. Read my address.

Is he talking about this s/w?

https://help.aol.com/articles/Settin...nt-for-Windows

your address is at Yahoo. So? Sure you can set up T'bird to retrieve
that mail. That's not even the issue. I do that too for an AOL account.

On 2/14/2016 5:54 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
In article , , Pfsszxt says...

On 2/14/2016 11:01 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

This joke has worn completely thin, unless you really are as clueless as
you pretend to be. An email client is software that handles email, NOT a
company that provides email services. Thus you cannot "get an account"
telephones, and wouldn't be able to use them with any other company.

Your having ignored the above makes me even more convinced you're just
trolling, for some reason that escapes me.

I'm too old for name playing. And don't have the time nor the
inclination to do so.
What I am saying, truthfully, is that no one can get a "resident"
e-mail account at/on Thunderbird. It will fetch mail from other
accounts one names . But, go try to open an account, you're so sure!
Click "sign up for an account" and see what you get!!! That doesn't
require much effort. Or would you prefer not to know the truth?

*STOP* barking up the wrong tree!

Put your AOL account in Thunderbird - you're done! You can now 'scan to
e-mail'.

Not true! HP was quite specific. They said I could only do the
"scan to e-mail" feature if I had Outlook installed on my computer.
And, insofar as I can determine, there is no other e-mail
client that will install on one's computer.
Folk's here seem to doubt that an this whole cluster-f**k is
the result.

Pfsszxt wrote:
HP was quite specific. They said I could only do the "scan to e-mail"
feature if I had Outlook installed on my computer.

If the HP support made that mistake at variance with the information in
your HP's manual, it probably (could have) occurred because of his
'corporate environment'. More likely you misunderstood what he said.

Corporate environments typically use Outlook and Exchange server and
'therefore' Outlook was (could have been) the first thing that came to
his mind as an *example* of a real MAPI client.

Also, there are some MAPI duties that OL can do that MAPI-deficient
software like Tb cannot do, but scan to email attachment is not one of
those deficiencies.

--
Mike Easter

Pfsszxt wrote:

Not true! HP was quite specific. They said I could only do the
"scan to e-mail" feature if I had Outlook installed on my computer.

And, insofar as I can determine, there is no other e-mail
client that will install on one's computer.

You must have missed this list of 30-40. Here it is again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar..._email_clients

On 2/15/16 7:44 AM, Pfsszxt wrote:
On 2/14/2016 12:52 PM, dadiOH wrote:
Pfsszxt wrote:

cute but not funny. Neither you,nor anyone else, has a resident
e-mail account at Thunderbird. You can list other e-mail eccounts
and T'bird will fetch mail from them. But if one tries their "sign up
for an account" thing one gets referred to something named
"gandhi.net"

OK, one more time...

Of COURSE no one has an account at Thunderbird. That's because Thunderbird
is a resident email CLIENT not a SERVER, a concept which you seem unwilling
or unable to grasp even though your OP was asking about a resident client.


This makes no sense! An e-mail client, as I understand it, is software
with which I can send, receive and forward e-mail correspondence.
And by "resident" I mean installed on my c0mputer.an also
Thunderbird, is in my case "resident". I can also read e-mail there
if I have listed other "clients" from which it gets the mail.
But no one can send e-mail to me at T'bird nor can I initiate
e-mail with a Thunderbird return address.

After a lot of mental debate over sticking my nose this mess...

The only thing that hasn't been mentioned to many times to count is,
client=program. I've seen others who do not understand or misunderstand
exactly what a client is until I tell them it's a program and not
something special.

So, now you're on you own as far as I am concerned, unless you actually
ask a question that isn't a repeat of others you've asked.


--
Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 44.0
Thunderbird 38.0.1
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

In article , , Pfsszxt says...

On 2/14/2016 5:54 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
In article , , Pfsszxt says...

On 2/14/2016 11:01 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

This joke has worn completely thin, unless you really are as clueless as
you pretend to be. An email client is software that handles email, NOT a
company that provides email services. Thus you cannot "get an account"
telephones, and wouldn't be able to use them with any other company.

Your having ignored the above makes me even more convinced you're just
trolling, for some reason that escapes me.

I'm too old for name playing. And don't have the time nor the
inclination to do so.
What I am saying, truthfully, is that no one can get a "resident"
e-mail account at/on Thunderbird. It will fetch mail from other
accounts one names . But, go try to open an account, you're so sure!
Click "sign up for an account" and see what you get!!! That doesn't
require much effort. Or would you prefer not to know the truth?

*STOP* barking up the wrong tree!

Put your AOL account in Thunderbird - you're done! You can now 'scan to
e-mail'.

Not true! HP was quite specific. They said I could only do the
"scan to e-mail" feature if I had Outlook installed on my computer.
And, insofar as I can determine, there is no other e-mail
client that will install on one's computer.
Folk's here seem to doubt that an this whole cluster-f**k is
the result.

The HP person you spoke to is wrong.

This is from the HP website (posted already in this thread)...

http://1drv.ms/20OKtFe

And here are two pages to help you setup an AOL account in
Thunderbird...

AOL guff on that...
https://help.aol.com/articles/how-do...plications-to-
send-and-receive-my-aol-mail

Maybe a better third party article...
http://email.about.com/od/accessinga...P_Settings.htm


--
Duncan.

In message , Pfsszxt writes:
On 2/14/2016 12:52 PM, dadiOH wrote:
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This makes no sense! An e-mail client, as I understand it, is software
with which I can send, receive and forward e-mail correspondence.

Yep, that'll do as a definition for now.

And by "resident" I mean installed on my c0mputer.an also
Thunderbird, is in my case "resident". I can also read e-mail there

OK so far ...

if I have listed other "clients" from which it gets the mail.

.... but not there. Those other "things" are NOT clients, they're
providers.

But no one can send e-mail to me at T'bird nor can I initiate
e-mail with a Thunderbird return address.

They can't email you "at" Thunderbird, because you don't work for that
estate agent somebody mentioned, so you don't have an @thunderbird.com
address.

They can email you at , which you can then receive with
Thunderbird; or Outlook; or (if you have an old enough computer) Outlook
Express; or Pegasus; or Eudora; or ...

Basically, people who email have no knowledge - and even
less interest - in what software you use to receive it. Equally, people
_you_ email have little interest in what software you use to _send_ your
emails; all they are interested in is that your email is
.

If you were to set up Thunderbird, Pegasus, Eudora, or one of countless
others, to HANDLE your emails, then your scanner
software would work with it. To use a phrase you are fond of using: try
it, why don't you! (It _WON'T_ work if you continue to use the AOL
software to handle your AOL email, because that software isn't a
"proper" email program.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

If you carry on hating, you're the one who's damaged.
- Sir Harold Atcherley, sent to the Burma/Siam railway in April 1943