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verbascum · 14-08-2010, 04:26

What I liked about Outlook was that your emails got downloaded so you could work on them offline. What I hated was that I never could back it up - all my contacts, calendar and emails could have been lost. And you couldn't copy an email message to a doc including sender date etc. I ended up forwarding them to myself.
Things got worse with a new laptop - nobody warned me about vista. Then VM went over to google platform, Outlook email no longer worked and I had to get my Blueyonder mail via webmail. Everything else went wrong, messages like "Firefox can't find Google" "Your MS Office is illegal" etc. slowdowns, gibberish typing (cursor slipping into line above), etc. So I finally decided to "get a Mac".
It's wonderful, EXCEPT for emails: hours and hours of phone calls with well-meaning VM and Mac techies, resetting each others' settings, even logging on to my computer, resulted in a complete mess, with some Blueyonder emails but not all arriving in Mac mail. Apple shop people puzzled. Then a young genius decided I should do IMAP and all my emails flooded in, complete with gmail-labels. But now I can't find them and I get nothing into Mac mail and outgoing ones are blocked. Had to go back to VM webmail, which frequently says oops can't get back to inbox. Why can't they talk to each other?

14-08-2010, 04:26	#138
verbascum Inactive Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: London N10 Services: Virgin Media Posts: 4	Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook What I liked about Outlook was that your emails got downloaded so you could work on them offline. What I hated was that I never could back it up - all my contacts, calendar and emails could have been lost. And you couldn't copy an email message to a doc including sender date etc. I ended up forwarding them to myself. Things got worse with a new laptop - nobody warned me about vista. Then VM went over to google platform, Outlook email no longer worked and I had to get my Blueyonder mail via webmail. Everything else went wrong, messages like "Firefox can't find Google" "Your MS Office is illegal" etc. slowdowns, gibberish typing (cursor slipping into line above), etc. So I finally decided to "get a Mac". It's wonderful, EXCEPT for emails: hours and hours of phone calls with well-meaning VM and Mac techies, resetting each others' settings, even logging on to my computer, resulted in a complete mess, with some Blueyonder emails but not all arriving in Mac mail. Apple shop people puzzled. Then a young genius decided I should do IMAP and all my emails flooded in, complete with gmail-labels. But now I can't find them and I get nothing into Mac mail and outgoing ones are blocked. Had to go back to VM webmail, which frequently says oops can't get back to inbox. Why can't they talk to each other?