Electronic Stimuli

     Hello fellow bloggers, readers and passers-by,

     Get your head out of the gutter because I was not talking about a vibe!  I'm talking about setting up my Outlook Express to receive my hotmail emails so I don't have to log on to hotmail every time I want to check my email. Unknowingly, I was not aware of all the who-do's and what's-it's I would encounter. I've set up rules to filter my emails, I've even forwarded emails from one account to the other... But I was not prepared for all the terminology and 'lingo' I would learn.

     For example, POP, SMTP, to name a couple. POP. I'm still not aware of what it stands for, but if you don't have the right number in the field, you will not be able to send/receive mail. Same with the SMTP. One allows you to send, one allows you to receive. Secondly, if you have the incorrect settings on your account to begin with, you have to hunt down the ones you changed to see if those are preventing emails from sending correctly.

     Needless to say, after 3 hours of mentally cursing the world wide web and being bombed with error message after error message, I managed to incorporate my personal email and our home email into outlook express. After that, I learned that you must create a CSV file of contacts before you can import them. And then I discovered that if you want your hotmail to go to your outlook, you first have to set up an @live id before you can do this. Slow and steady wins the race right? I managed to do those two things as well.

     Before my blissful pat on the back, I also forwarded all of my future personal emails to my live account which will also go to my outlook account, as well as the same with our home emails... So, you can see where the stimuli is... Learned something new! But do NOT ask me to do it again... I don't know if I could do it again!

     Until tomorrow,
     LaVonda