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Printing emails from googlemail/explorer 7
Hi.. I have changed from Outlook Express to a web based e-mail Googlemail and all appears to be well but I am frustrated that I cannot find a way to print just the content of an e-mail. I seem to have to have all the surrounding screen blurb ( lst of folders, labels, page directors etc) that makes up the webpage. I am using XP SP2 and IE 7.
Can anyone advise please??
Can anyone advise please??
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To the right hand side of the email content is a printer icon, which says "print all" or similar on it.
click it and a new page will open, showing just the email content (with the google logo at top of course).
(note that if you want, you can use gmail over imap, still using outlook express. just remember to set it up properly (ask here if you like), such as turning off spam filtering.)
click it and a new page will open, showing just the email content (with the google logo at top of course).
(note that if you want, you can use gmail over imap, still using outlook express. just remember to set it up properly (ask here if you like), such as turning off spam filtering.)
When using a client app like Outlook Express to check your email, there are 3 main acronyms and abbreviations that you'll see:
POP: move email from server to your machine
IMAP: synchronise email on server and your machine
SMTP: send email
POP is older and not as good. Most offer IMAP too now. Basically, if you want to check your email you need to use either POP or IMAP. POP moves the mail to your computer, meaning that it'll disappear from the server eventually. IMAP keeps it on the server too (for instance, Gmail's servers), just making sure that the email on your computer matches that on the server.
IMAP is much better for technical reasons, but to you it means that you can check your email on multiple devices and they'll all stay in sync with each other.
And you'll always be told to tell Outlook Express what SMTP server you want to use -- this is the server that sends your mail. Gmail has their own, your ISP will have their own, etc.
The Gmail interface is great, but the downside is that you don't actually store email on your own computer. If something goes wrong with Gmail you lose everything (and in the terms and conditions, you'll find that it won't be Google's fault).
So, what I do is use IMAP too. In the Gmail settings you can enable IMAP for your account. There are good help files there too, telling you step by step how to set up Outlook Express.
Once done, you can check your email with either the web interface or with Outlook Express. Using this method though, your mail will also be in Outlook Express too, stored on your computer. So if Gmail goes belly-up, you'll still be ok.
(Postscript: I'd recommend you use Thunderbird over Outlook. It's free, and is safer and better. It also stores your email in a better format that's easier to recover if something goes wrong.)
POP: move email from server to your machine
IMAP: synchronise email on server and your machine
SMTP: send email
POP is older and not as good. Most offer IMAP too now. Basically, if you want to check your email you need to use either POP or IMAP. POP moves the mail to your computer, meaning that it'll disappear from the server eventually. IMAP keeps it on the server too (for instance, Gmail's servers), just making sure that the email on your computer matches that on the server.
IMAP is much better for technical reasons, but to you it means that you can check your email on multiple devices and they'll all stay in sync with each other.
And you'll always be told to tell Outlook Express what SMTP server you want to use -- this is the server that sends your mail. Gmail has their own, your ISP will have their own, etc.
The Gmail interface is great, but the downside is that you don't actually store email on your own computer. If something goes wrong with Gmail you lose everything (and in the terms and conditions, you'll find that it won't be Google's fault).
So, what I do is use IMAP too. In the Gmail settings you can enable IMAP for your account. There are good help files there too, telling you step by step how to set up Outlook Express.
Once done, you can check your email with either the web interface or with Outlook Express. Using this method though, your mail will also be in Outlook Express too, stored on your computer. So if Gmail goes belly-up, you'll still be ok.
(Postscript: I'd recommend you use Thunderbird over Outlook. It's free, and is safer and better. It also stores your email in a better format that's easier to recover if something goes wrong.)
Thank you again... I have now downloaded, instaled and configured Thunderbird 2 and have enabled POP and my email from googlemail has downloaded from the googleserver. I chose to leave a copy on the googleserver. I have also enabled IMAP in my googlemail.
It all seemed to go smoothly... the help stuff on Thunderbird is excellent. (even I managed al this!!).
Many thanks indeed... I,ll try not to bother you again!
Regards..
It all seemed to go smoothly... the help stuff on Thunderbird is excellent. (even I managed al this!!).
Many thanks indeed... I,ll try not to bother you again!
Regards..
Ah! I went into my googlemail account and in settings I disabled POP. I seem to have introduced a problem. The Thunderbird Tools, Settings, Servers Settings shows POP Mailserver. When I was asked for the password to send an email to my googlemail account from my Thunderbird account I got an error message saying thet POP was not enabled on the gmail account (obviously because I turned it off).. Do I have to configure Thunderbird to use IMAP also... and if so there does not seem an obvious 'select choice' as there is in googlrmail. Am I being stupid?
Yea, keep POP disabled with googlemail. Both your googlemail and thunderbird accounts are exactly the same, just two different ways of checking your mail.
You may want to erase the account you've set up in thunderbird (don't worry, you won't lose any email). This isn't strictly necessary, but it may be easier to do this now and then follow these instructions:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?a nswer=77662&topic=12920
You may want to erase the account you've set up in thunderbird (don't worry, you won't lose any email). This isn't strictly necessary, but it may be easier to do this now and then follow these instructions:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?a nswer=77662&topic=12920
To remove account, see here:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Docum entation:Managing_Your_Accounts#Removing_an_ac count
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Docum entation:Managing_Your_Accounts#Removing_an_ac count
Hello fo3nix... by now you will realise you are dealing with a novice. I really quite like the Thunderbird presentation and it's similarity to Outlook. Are you saying that I have duplicated the mail client in having both Googlemail and Thunderbird? (sorry if I have misunderstood.) In which case would I have been better creating a new Thunderbird e-mail address rather than the googlemail one and moving/converting my old Outlook mail and address book to a Thunderbird account? I am doing all this because I had my original ISP supplied e-mail account 'hi-jacked' and was being flooded by spam (with sometimes very obnoxious/offensive content) and was unable to get any response or assistance from my ISP. Received advice was get a new e-mail account.... googlemail was recommended. (GMX looked an interesting option but opinion on the web seemed to suggest it was too new and unreliable.) So I went for a new googlemail account. All this is is for clarity so you know where I am coming from... I would happily change my ISP but you can see how much trouble I get into just changing mail!! I am retired and I do not have very high volumes of mail... I just want a reliable and secure messaging capability. So... sorry to ask, what would be your recommendation?
Gmail's great, my recommendation for sure.
Just stick with the system you're doing now -- using both googlemail and thunderbird for your one email address. It seems like you're doing the same thing twice, but it means that you get a backup of your email -- that's all it's for.
Also handy if you go abroad somewhere, as you can use the web interface to check your mail.
(I haven't used Thunderbird for a while, but I think bottom-left corner is an icon to take you 'offline'. You can click that, and it'll backup all your emails to your computer for you, so you can still access them without a net connection. Very handy as a backup also.)
Just stick with the system you're doing now -- using both googlemail and thunderbird for your one email address. It seems like you're doing the same thing twice, but it means that you get a backup of your email -- that's all it's for.
Also handy if you go abroad somewhere, as you can use the web interface to check your mail.
(I haven't used Thunderbird for a while, but I think bottom-left corner is an icon to take you 'offline'. You can click that, and it'll backup all your emails to your computer for you, so you can still access them without a net connection. Very handy as a backup also.)
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