On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:03:43 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2021-02-08 1:36 p.m., US Janet wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:13:50 -0500, Dave Smith
>
>>> I used Windows Live Mail with the old computers. It is now no longer
>>> supported and not even available for download. They now have Outlook
>>> mail. I much prefer the Live Mail, so I have been using Thunderbird for
>>> mail as well as news groups because it is more like my old news reader.
>>
>> I haven't been able to activate Outlook email in Windows yet although
>> I am using Outlook on my old computer thanks to cloned drive. Office
>> wants to do everything for you even if you don't want it done.
>> Everything has been simplified beyond simple. I'm afraid to open my
>> tablet for fear of what has happened there. I'm operating on my old
>> computer -- should have just saved the money I spent on a new laptop.
>> NOTE: write to Help and tell them to give you a key. It's their
>> problem, not yours.
>>
>
>Oh yeah... that was another of my problems. When I got the laptop it set
>up a lot of things, including my Outlook email account. I was
>impressed. When I got the desk top and got it going it seemed to be
>going through the same process. However, there was no email downloaded.
>I sent myself an email to test it. It went to the lap top and my cell,
>but not to the desktop. I then set went to my wife's profile to set up
>her email. It seemed to work. A bunch of emails were downloaded, but
>then I realized there had only been a a dozen emails in the in box and
>they were from 2016-17.I figured that I had to edit the POP and SMTP
>server settings but could not find them in Outlook.
>
> After a lot of looking around the net for advice I found out that I
>had to go back to the computer's Windows settings, accounts..... I
>made the changes there, then went back to Outlet, deleted my email
>account and then set up a new one. Windows took over and ... voila...
>Outlook mail was working.
>
>
Oh, yeah. nodding head. but I didn't want my email sent to my cell
phone.
Janet US