BS: Best email for sending music attachments

Subject: BS: Best email for sending music attachments
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 09:33 PM

I am having trouble managing my email. I have outlook at work but for some reason outlook does not work on my home computer and I am not going to spend money trying to find out why. I have yahoo, which is fine for emailing back and forth, but I find it difficult with attachments..sometimes they open and sometimes they take forever and sometimes they don't seem to want to open. I signed up for gmail but found it would not sort and I need to sort a whole bunch of stuff and delete. I am going to want to set up a separate account for genealogy and probably one for music and need to send attachments frequently. I love outlook for this but not an option at this time. Any suggestions? mg

Subject: RE: BS: Best email for sending music attachments
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 09:48 PM

Thunderbird.

Subject: RE: BS: Best email for sending music attachments
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 10:17 PM

Thunderbird is fine... I still use Eudora, and it works just fine for anything I want to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Best email for sending music attachments
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 04:52 AM

The main problem with sending attachments with any email is usually the file size, although a few servers/services are pretty arbitrary about blocking certain file types, or running them through slow exotic antimalware routines.

JPG files were considered highly suspect not too long ago, but the problems with them seem to have pretty much disappeared with browser updates. Some servers are very suspicious of PDF files. Some reject .zip and/or .exe rather arbitrarily.

If you run Windows and Outlook isn't "built in," or doesn't want to work, you either have a very basic version of Windows or an old OS. All versions of Windows within my memory, even the "kiddie toy" ones, have had "simplified" email programs that are a part of the Windows installation, although you might have to "step up" a level to get Outlook. You shouldn't have to pay extra for a fairly decent email program in any Windows version.

In Vista, the "bargain shop" email is called Mail, and it's pretty much the same as the "Mail" that was in early Win98(?). In WinXP, and I think in late Win98, there should be an "Outlook Express" that should be available and usable. I haven't looked at what's in Win7, but would expect something similar to be there.(?)

Most "browser email" programs save emails on your local machine in html or plain text, neither of which efficiently "embeds" attachments - so far as I've seen. The "attachments" are saved as separate files, linked on your computer by "local links." The links have to be created on your machine when the message and attachement are saved, and can be somewhat fragile. If you move the files/folders, and sometimes if you "export" or "Save AS" the links may break.

Both "Outlook Express" and "Mail" make the attachments an integral part of the single email message file (like Outlook does.) You might get better "message integrity" with one of these. Both of these programs, however, require that you use "POP3" for incoming messages, and some "free email" services don't support it. You still send html, but receive POP3 with both these programs.

Mail, in the Vista version, has the advantage of saving the individual message files as "email" (.eml) files that can be opened individually (in Mail) by just "double clicking" in a storage file where you've archived them, so you can keep a backup of files you want to save outside of the Mail message tree to avoid trashing the "current email" you keep active, although some of the file management for an archive is a bit cumbersome. Most people probably don't archive much, so it isn't likely to be much of a problem for the typical users.

Outlook Express saves the files in "database format" as .dbx folders that make it rather difficult to retrieve single files from the "backup" if you use Microsoft's recommended method, so "archive management" is really rather nasty; but again you probably don't need that ability(?). You can print the messages, or I believe you can export them as .eml files, and save attachments as separate files fairly easily.

I use Mail (in Vista) because it doesn't have all the crap that's in Outlook. If you're a twit who tweets and forwards twats, and you want popup "important messages" all the time, you might want to "make Outlook work," but Mail meets my needs quite satisfactorily (with only occasional #@!$%@! comments).

John

Subject: RE: BS: Best email for sending music attachments
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:50 AM

www.yousendit.com

not good for general email, but can send anything you want fast, cheap (free!)