[Tfug] Qwest/MSN Linux email?

[Felix Tilley]

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> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:50:07 -0700
> From: "Bill M." <beelymagee at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Qwest/MSN Linux email?
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> Harry & Predrag,
>   Thanks for your responses about using Qwest/MSN and email services. It
> turns out that my mother-in-law had "preview" mode turned on in Outlook
> Express for her MSN email account. I changed that to "text-only" viewing
> of email so HTML email and images are not viewed -- she has to open the
> images outside of Outlook (or save them.) Spybot had all kinds of
> reported "problems" which it "fixed" while Registry "run" options all
> looked very clean.
>   I explained how Linux would make things more simple for her and she
> seemed amenable to changing. I'd probably set up her Dell tower as a
> dual boot with Linux the default. If that did happen, I would probably
> set her up with GMail for email and pull down to Thunderbird. The MSN
> web-mail has to go through the MSN portal which sucks immensely! I'd set
> up a mail server on the Linux install, but I want to cut down on the
> "support" calls as much as possible.
>   Again, thanks for the responses!
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A friend of mine was using AOL on a dialup for years.  About two years 
ago, he got Qwest DSL and still uses AOL.  I am pretty sure Qwest will 
let you use ISPs other than MSN.