"Saigon''s Mom" <SaigonsMom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE82B8AA-7613-4C47-9054-051B24279EC7@microsoft.com...
> 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.
Norton is as bad or maybe even worse.
Don't wait for the trial to run out since you are simply
risking further problems. Just get rid of McAfee
and install Avast which is free and is proving to be
a stable, trouble free alternative.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
>
> "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?