My employer keeps threatening to block POP access at work (We use Lotus Notes for corporate email, but I've got Eudora set up on my work machine to grab personal stuff). My web host's webmail interface is of the suck, so this may be the ticket when my employer carries through with their threat.

So I just discovered that gmail won't let me send executable files. It flagged a Microsoft Access file inside a zip file as an executable. Don't suppose there's any easy way around this (that wouldn't require clients receiving my email to jump through hoops).

Not a big deal, as mostly I use our regular work email.

Don't know if you'd consider this a hoop jumper, but you could change the file name extension and ask the client to change it back?

Don't know if you'd consider this a hoop jumper, but you could change the file name extension and ask the client to change it back?

Yeah, if this problem crops up in the future (where my regular email is down) I'll just have to try that. (At least for the client in question - that's something he could manage....)

Don't suppose there's any easy way around this

You could encrypt the zip with a simple password. Gmail whines about the encrypted zip file with "[WARNING : MESSAGE ENCRYPTED]" prepended to the subject, but the file is delivered.

Anyone know of a quick and easy way to convert files purchased from Yahoo Musicmatch (which are in Windows Media format) into files playable by iTunes and on an iPod?

That Gmail Mail Fetcher thingie I mentioned above? I'm having trouble setting it up. Here's the beginning of the instructions posted at [link]

1. Click Settings from the top of any Gmail page.
2. Click Accounts.
3. In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add another mail account.
4. Enter the full email address of the account you'd like to access, then click Next Step.
5. Gmail will populate the Username and POP Server fields when possible, based on your email address. Enter your Password.

I get stuck at step 3. When I click on Settings and then Accounts, I don't see an option for Get mail from other accounts. I can add another email address, but that's just for sending mail, not receiving it.

Anyone? Bueller?

t edit Never mind. I found a thread about it here: [link]

Thank you, Jon! Because I ran into the same problem you did...

Anyone here use OpenOffice? If so, how do I do a hanging indent in Writer?

I just opened my first season Dark Angel dvds to play them for the first time, and my dvd player says Nuh-uh. It's a Samsung Progressive Scan DVD V4600, and we've not had any trouble with it before. We cleaned it with one of those laser-cleaning discs and tried it again, with no luck. The player still readily plays all the dvds we've been playing on it all along. It's just the new DA discs. The screen says "loading" forever. Once in a while it will give a "disc cannot be played. check disc" message. Same deal with all the discs in the set.

The player was a little balky on Disc 5 of the new SPN dvds, but it did play it.

The discs are all from Deep Discount DVD, so supposedly not ripoffs. It's been suggested that new encoding on the discs may be causing the problem. Any ideas on what's causing the problem, and more to the point, how to fix it? Do I need to exchange the discs and hope another set will play? Am I going to have to buy a new player for the new encoding on all new discs?