Home wireless networking-email question

[Russ Smith]

IT guy at work set me up with a router and wireless modem. My dad gave me a new PC as an early birthday present(he built it so not a brand name but very fast and tons of memory). So we now have my girlfriend's laptop up wirelessly next up is to network them so I can copy files from the laptop to the PC(family pics mostly).

When I powered up the wireless I could see 14 other wireless networks, I didn't try to connect to any but I guess living in an apartment its amazing how many people have wireless now. Mine's password protected so I think I'm relatively secure.

Anybody know how to get IE explorer 6 to allow you to set Comcast email as the default? It's not in the dropdown menu that's built in to IE. What I ended up doing was setting up outlook to be the default email and having it connect to comcast but I really don't like it that way. If I connect with the laptop it retrieves everything in the mailbox, and then if I connect with the PC, all those messages don't show in the inbox(because they are on the laptop inbox instead).

Now when I connect to Comcast email directly all the old messages are not in the inbox for the same reason. Before I used outlook I could connect to comcast email from any computer and have ALL the messages in the inbox still be there. The main reason for wanting it as the default is my girlfriend uses Craigslist to search for jobs and often they give you a link to reply by email and send your resume. If you click the link it opens Outlook(set as the default) not Comcast so you send a message with no sender unless you configure Outlook to use comcast. If comcast was the default it would just open up Comcast email instead.

I asked my IT buddy here how to do it and he said he's never had comcast and if it's not in the dropdown menu he doesn't know how you'd do it.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

IT guy at work set me up with a router and wireless modem. My dad gave me a new PC as an early birthday present(he built it so not a brand name but very fast and tons of memory). So we now have my girlfriend's laptop up wirelessly next up is to network them so I can copy files from the laptop to the PC(family pics mostly).

When I powered up the wireless I could see 14 other wireless networks, I didn't try to connect to any but I guess living in an apartment its amazing how many people have wireless now. Mine's password protected so I think I'm relatively secure.

Anybody know how to get IE explorer 6 to allow you to set Comcast email as the default? It's not in the dropdown menu that's built in to IE. What I ended up doing was setting up outlook to be the default email and having it connect to comcast but I really don't like it that way. If I connect with the laptop it retrieves everything in the mailbox, and then if I connect with the PC, all those messages don't show in the inbox(because they are on the laptop inbox instead).

Now when I connect to Comcast email directly all the old messages are not in the inbox for the same reason. Before I used outlook I could connect to comcast email from any computer and have ALL the messages in the inbox still be there. The main reason for wanting it as the default is my girlfriend uses Craigslist to search for jobs and often they give you a link to reply by email and send your resume. If you click the link it opens Outlook(set as the default) not Comcast so you send a message with no sender unless you configure Outlook to use comcast. If comcast was the default it would just open up Comcast email instead.

I asked my IT buddy here how to do it and he said he's never had comcast and if it's not in the dropdown menu he doesn't know how you'd do it.

Well, first off, the email is probably not showing up on the Comcast site because it's been downloaded into Outlook. You can change a setting in Outlook to "Leave a copy of the message on the server" which should always leave it on Comcast's site until you delete it.

Secondly, I don't know how to make IE use Comcast instead of Outlook. It's probably some setting in the Registry, but I don't know if you can have it change to a "web interface" for email.

I use Gmail for all my main now, and I'd like to have mail links on pages point towards Gmail, but no clue how

 

[Russ Smith]

Well, first off, the email is probably not showing up on the Comcast site because it's been downloaded into Outlook. You can change a setting in Outlook to "Leave a copy of the message on the server" which should always leave it on Comcast's site until you delete it.

Secondly, I don't know how to make IE use Comcast instead of Outlook. It's probably some setting in the Registry, but I don't know if you can have it change to a "web interface" for email.

I use Gmail for all my main now, and I'd like to have mail links on pages point towards Gmail, but no clue how

Yes my IT guy actually said you can probably do it with the registry but he knew that was way over my head so didn't even try to explain how. I did some googling and I found a bunch of sites where the same question is asked without a satisfactory answer. I have a help desk email in to Comcast to see if they know how to do it.

Thanks for the tip on the Outlook setting, I'll try that, if that works I may just stick to Outlook as the default.

 

[Chaz]

Comcast has their own email client program or is the Comcast email through the browser and webmail?

What the dropdown in IE shows in the installed MAPI clients on the PC.
You will need to install some MAPI support for that client for the email links to take you there. I would think comcast would have some install for this. Maybe a link once you login?