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Old January 11th 19, 06:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
No_Name
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Default How the heck do you drag a picture in gmail?

For many years I used an old version of Thunderbird (3,x) for my gmail.
All of a sudden google decided my thunderbird was too old and not
secure. Yet it worked fine and I could give a rats ass about security,
especially when my emails are very6 boring for anyone who would attempt
to read them, while most of the world posts their who life on Facebork
and the whole world can read it.

Anyhow, I was forced to upgrade Thunderbird to the latest ver that XP
allows. For some reason, I can READ my email, but can not post from it
on TB. I;ve entered my username and password till I turned green and it
still wont work.

So, I am forced to do my gmail on the web, and I hate the format they
have. Anyhow, in TB if I wanted to upload a picture, I'd go to the
folder where I have it and click on the filename. On web based gmail, I
must DRAG the photo to the page. NOT BOTH at the same time. This is a
laptop with a 13" screen. I'd need a giant monitor to load both at the
same time.......



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Old January 11th 19, 07:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default How the heck do you drag a picture in gmail?

wrote:
For many years I used an old version of Thunderbird (3,x) for my gmail.
All of a sudden google decided my thunderbird was too old and not
secure. Yet it worked fine and I could give a rats ass about security,
especially when my emails are very6 boring for anyone who would attempt
to read them, while most of the world posts their who life on Facebork
and the whole world can read it.

Anyhow, I was forced to upgrade Thunderbird to the latest ver that XP
allows. For some reason, I can READ my email, but can not post from it
on TB. I;ve entered my username and password till I turned green and it
still wont work.

So, I am forced to do my gmail on the web, and I hate the format they
have. Anyhow, in TB if I wanted to upload a picture, I'd go to the
folder where I have it and click on the filename. On web based gmail, I
must DRAG the photo to the page. NOT BOTH at the same time. This is a
laptop with a 13" screen. I'd need a giant monitor to load both at the
same time.......


You should be able to use Thunderbird via
the "Less Secure Apps" setting.

https://support.google.com/accounts/.../6010255?hl=en

The choice of POP3/IMAP and SMTP is listed here. The SMTP,
I think that does the "Sending" part.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_Gmai..._Mozilla_Suite

SMTP
port 25 (ISP blocks???)
port 465 (SSL/TLS)
port 587 STARTTLS === use this one ???

If you accidentally selected Port 25, that choice likely
only works with your ISP email. At a guess.

You can look up STARTTLS on Wikipedia, to learn more about
the plusses and minuses of it. On the positive side, since
it uses encryption early, it may afford the ISP fewer opportunities
to block stuff.

*******

You could find a video "How to Insert Pictures in Gmail E-mail"
to see some of the options available. In addition to drag
and drop, there is also an option to use a file browser
dialog to select one or multiple images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YulzpKyceKI

Paul
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Old January 12th 19, 02:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
MikeS[_5_]
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Default How the heck do you drag a picture in gmail?

On 11/01/2019 05:38, wrote:
For many years I used an old version of Thunderbird (3,x) for my gmail.
All of a sudden google decided my thunderbird was too old and not
secure. Yet it worked fine and I could give a rats ass about security,
especially when my emails are very6 boring for anyone who would attempt
to read them, while most of the world posts their who life on Facebork
and the whole world can read it.

Anyhow, I was forced to upgrade Thunderbird to the latest ver that XP
allows. For some reason, I can READ my email, but can not post from it
on TB. I;ve entered my username and password till I turned green and it
still wont work.

So, I am forced to do my gmail on the web, and I hate the format they
have. Anyhow, in TB if I wanted to upload a picture, I'd go to the
folder where I have it and click on the filename. On web based gmail, I
must DRAG the photo to the page. NOT BOTH at the same time. This is a
laptop with a 13" screen. I'd need a giant monitor to load both at the
same time.......




With Thunderbird did you remember that the outgoing server settings are
separate from the incoming ones?

For some reason incoming servers appear under each account's set of
options but outgoing servers are grouped together for all accounts at
the bottom of the list.
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Old January 23rd 19, 10:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default How the heck do you drag a picture in gmail?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:28:33 +0000, MikeS wrote:

On 11/01/2019 05:38, wrote:
For many years I used an old version of Thunderbird (3,x) for my gmail.
All of a sudden google decided my thunderbird was too old and not
secure. Yet it worked fine and I could give a rats ass about security,
especially when my emails are very6 boring for anyone who would attempt
to read them, while most of the world posts their who life on Facebork
and the whole world can read it.

Anyhow, I was forced to upgrade Thunderbird to the latest ver that XP
allows. For some reason, I can READ my email, but can not post from it
on TB. I;ve entered my username and password till I turned green and it
still wont work.

So, I am forced to do my gmail on the web, and I hate the format they
have. Anyhow, in TB if I wanted to upload a picture, I'd go to the
folder where I have it and click on the filename. On web based gmail, I
must DRAG the photo to the page. NOT BOTH at the same time. This is a
laptop with a 13" screen. I'd need a giant monitor to load both at the
same time.......




With Thunderbird did you remember that the outgoing server settings are
separate from the incoming ones?

For some reason incoming servers appear under each account's set of
options but outgoing servers are grouped together for all accounts at
the bottom of the list.


I didnt know thAt was separate. i found the outgoing place at the
bottom, but what do i enter in there for Gmail? This is getting real
frustrating. The old thunderbird ver 3.x was so much easier and user
friendly. I am about ready to find some other email software. Google
refuses to let me use the old version anymore or id just keep using
that. I see no advantage to this new version, in fact it lacks some of
the old stuff like compact messages.

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Old January 24th 19, 01:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default How the heck do you drag a picture in gmail?

wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:28:33 +0000, MikeS wrote:

On 11/01/2019 05:38,
wrote:
For many years I used an old version of Thunderbird (3,x) for my

gmail. All of a sudden google decided my thunderbird was too old
and not secure. Yet it worked fine and I could give a rats ass
about security, especially when my emails are very6 boring for
anyone who would attempt to read them, while most of the world
posts their who life on Facebork and the whole world can read it.

Anyhow, I was forced to upgrade Thunderbird to the latest ver that

XP allows. For some reason, I can READ my email, but can not post
from it on TB. I;ve entered my username and password till I turned
green and it still wont work.

So, I am forced to do my gmail on the web, and I hate the format

they have. Anyhow, in TB if I wanted to upload a picture, I'd go
to the folder where I have it and click on the filename. On web
based gmail, I must DRAG the photo to the page. NOT BOTH at the
same time. This is a laptop with a 13" screen. I'd need a giant
monitor to load both at the same time.......




With Thunderbird did you remember that the outgoing server settings
are separate from the incoming ones?

For some reason incoming servers appear under each account's set of
options but outgoing servers are grouped together for all accounts
at the bottom of the list.


I didnt know thAt was separate. i found the outgoing place at the
bottom, but what do i enter in there for Gmail? This is getting real
frustrating. The old thunderbird ver 3.x was so much easier and user
friendly. I am about ready to find some other email software. Google
refuses to let me use the old version anymore or id just keep using
that. I see no advantage to this new version, in fact it lacks some of
the old stuff like compact messages.


Bartender,

Outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com
Port 465

HTH,

JT


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