Emails from USA

[Guest]

Hi, hope you can help - I have Norton 2007 (email settings set to low on all
addresses) and Windows Defender. I cannot receive emails from some addresses
in the USA. On my Vista Windows mail junk is set to low. Hotmail is set to
low and I have put their addresses on approved list. What can be wrong?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Look under Tools/Message Rules

If you get some mail but not others see what the missed ones have in
common.
Some ISPs block some providers since they are know for their spam
distribution.
Check with your ISP about the specific Email addresses missed.

You mention Windows Mail and Hotmail, are the same mails missed on
both?

Otherwise since this is a mail issue, you should ask in:
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail

 

[Alias]

Hi, hope you can help - I have Norton 2007 (email settings set to low on all
addresses) and Windows Defender. I cannot receive emails from some addresses
in the USA. On my Vista Windows mail junk is set to low. Hotmail is set to
low and I have put their addresses on approved list. What can be wrong?

Two wrong things: you've installed Norton and Vista. Go back to XP (and
don't put Norton on it) or upgrade to Ubuntu and use Thunderbird.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Hi, hope you can help - I have Norton 2007 (email settings set to low on all
addresses) and Windows Defender. I cannot receive emails from some addresses
in the USA. On my Vista Windows mail junk is set to low. Hotmail is set to
low and I have put their addresses on approved list. What can be wrong?

Your ISP may have blocked some address groups, does your ISP contract
come with any kind of mail filtering? Look at their website if not sure.

There could be a number of things causing this, Norton email filtering
being a prime candidate. You only need Norton running, you do not gain
anything from their "Email" filtering and often it causes trouble so if
you can find the setting try disabling that, the live protection will
still work although personally I think Norton is worthless and a
resource hog so would get rid of it completely. Needless to say if you
disable it all be careful what you open to read...

If you can;t find anything and post back please include your ISP and if
possible the kinds of addresses being rejected, but NOT the actual
addresses, example say (e-mail address removed) works but (e-mail address removed)
does not work. They maybe someone can be a bit more specific in their
answer.

Also mention if these senders were trying to send any kind of attachment
such as .doc files.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Two wrong things: you've installed Norton and Vista. Go back to XP (and
don't put Norton on it) or upgrade to Ubuntu and use Thunderbird.

See, now who is making an ass of himself? Mr. Ubuntu, the marketing
department. Just FYI.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Hi, hope you can help - I have Norton 2007 (email settings set to low on
all
addresses) and Windows Defender. I cannot receive emails from some
addresses
in the USA. On my Vista Windows mail junk is set to low. Hotmail is set
to
low and I have put their addresses on approved list. What can be wrong?

Once your e-mail settings have been fixed, remove Norton from your computer
and install either AVG Free or AVAST as your antivirus. You will be much
happier. Norton and McAfee are both resource hogs and cause more problems
to your system.

 

[Alias]

See, now who is making an ass of himself? Mr. Ubuntu, the marketing
department. Just FYI.

What, exactly, is your problem with my suggestions? Or are you just
looking for an opportunity to hone your ability to insult and lie?

 

[David B.]

I agree with the first part of your answer, the second, not so much.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

What, exactly, is your problem with my suggestions? Or are you just
looking for an opportunity to hone your ability to insult and lie?

No, you are looking for every opportunity to preach YOUR holy-goodness of
Ubuntu to the VISTA group, where you are NOT wanted. That is what is wrong
with your suggestions. Just FYI.

 

[David B.]

Actually, removing Norton may take care of the problems, so I would start
there before doing any other fixes, then deal with any reaming problems
after getting that resource sucking piece of garbage off the system.

 

[DanS]

Actually, removing Norton may take care of the problems, so I would
start there before doing any other fixes, then deal with any reaming
problems after getting that resource sucking piece of garbage off the
system.

Which resource-sucking piece of garbage....Norton or Vista ?!

 

[Guest]

Can't you clowns get off here. You are a pain in tha arse!

 

[HeyBub]

Bill Yanaire wrote:

What, exactly, is your problem with my suggestions? Or are you just
looking for an opportunity to hone your ability to insult and lie?

Isn't it true that Ubangi is another Nigerian scam?

I recall reading recently that the postal service is cracking down on same,
even confiscating some $16 million.

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

What, exactly, is your problem with my suggestions? Or are you just
looking for an opportunity to hone your ability to insult and lie?

What's wrong with your suggestions? You're assuming that the OP installed
Vista and Norton. Perhaps it was all pre-installed on their computer. In
that case, switching to XP can cause problems if there are no Vista drivers
available.

 

[Alias]

Isn't it true that Ubangi is another Nigerian scam?

If you're referring to Ubuntu, do you know the difference between South
Africa and Nigeria?

I recall reading recently that the postal service is cracking down on same,
even confiscating some $16 million.

No you didn't. You just made that up. The question is why?

 

[Alias]

What's wrong with your suggestions? You're assuming that the OP installed
Vista and Norton. Perhaps it was all pre-installed on their computer.

I assumed no such thing and, even if I did, that wouldn't change my advice.

In
that case, switching to XP can cause problems if there are no Vista drivers
available.

Why would XP need Vista drivers? If there aren't any *XP* drivers, that
leaves Ubuntu who will have the drivers.

 

[Guest]

Hi thanks for all the suggestions. Sorry the African bit was over my
head!!?? I have disabled the incoming scanning - still nothing received.
The emails are primarily from the same company - different departments and
people - I have received some emails from them in the past but nothing for
two weeks. My computer is six months old with Vista already installed. I am
guessing that most of you don't like Norton or McAfee - really worried that
the others are not good enough - when I was living in the States I had one of
the ones you mentioned, and they told me they were not as effective.
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tcp

Two wrong things: you've installed Norton and Vista. Go back to XP (and
don't put Norton on it) or upgrade to Ubuntu and use Thunderbird.

See, now who is making an ass of himself? Mr. Ubuntu, the marketing
department. Just FYI.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Hi thanks for all the suggestions. Sorry the African bit was over my
head!!?? I have disabled the incoming scanning - still nothing received.
The emails are primarily from the same company - different departments and
people - I have received some emails from them in the past but nothing for
two weeks. My computer is six months old with Vista already installed. I am
guessing that most of you don't like Norton or McAfee - really worried that
the others are not good enough - when I was living in the States I had one of
the ones you mentioned, and they told me they were not as effective.

Well in my carefully considered opinion Symantec and McAfee have placed
too much emphasis on reporting "Look what we saved you from" and not
enough on things like having your PC run efficiently and maybe catching
the occasional virus. In short, snake oil.

No AV is 100%, Trend, (We use that at work) Panda, Kaspersky AVG and
Avast all seem to work better with less resources used and one or two
swear by NOD32 or whatever. F-Secure have a good detailed website.

Norton and McAfee seem to have tried to "Integrate" too much into one
package and it's just inefficient. The versions of Norton Corporate I
have seen some time ago of course, are all leaner, less full of their
abilities when it comes to notifications and actually seem to work