Saigon''s Mom

Bob,
Thank you for your insights. I will, most likely, look into a different mail
program. As for McAfee, disabling makes no difference and I'm hesitant to get
too involved with it because I'll probably switch to Norton before the McAfee
trial runs out. Interesting that even though I've supposedly disabled the
scanning, it continues to scan.
Windows provides the firewall, yes? I haven't seen any other names.

"Bob J" wrote:

> First I must state that I am not in anyway anti MS, and have been using Vista
> for over 12mth, with a few minor problems, if read thru these MS groups you
> will see that Windows Mail does appear to have a lot of problems.
> A replacement for Windows Mail called Windows Live Mail is available, which
> may be worth trying, it appears to operate better that WM.
> Another alternative is Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail reader, both of
> which I have used for several years, both with XP and now Vista.
> What firewall are you running?
> Doe McAfee indicate why you cannot disable E-Mail Scanner?
> --
> Regards
> Bob J
>
>
> "Saigon''s Mom" wrote:
>
> > I bought the laptop with Vista and Microsoft mail a week ago. At first the
> > mail program worked fine, albeit slow. Now I cannot send email. No error
> > message appears; the mail just goes to the Outbox and stays there. My server
> > information is correct. (Pinetree Networks). I've tried to disable the
> > McCaffree virus scanner to no avail. Every time I open Mail it "processes"
> > each and every file.
> >
> > Not sure where to go from here. Any other suggestions?