Default mail server (email, gmail, installed, Vista)
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WHAT IS A DEFAULT MAIL SERVER? I have a Vista Home Premium computer. I began to get pop ups when I went into some links that read: "default mailer not properly installed." So I could never get through some links. Therefore, I checked with a Verizon tech support, with a heavy accent. I wanted to keep Windows as my default mailer, even though my email account is with Yahoo. The Verizon tech changed everything around, now yahoo says that if I change it back to the way It was, I will loose all information and files on my account with them. Now, I cannot get into my Windows Mail, because I kept the account name and password I have with Yahoo. What do I do? Is it bad to keep Yahoo as my default mail server, or does Windows have to be it. I need help, and everytime I get one of those support techs on line, they change things around my computer for the worse. Thank you,
If you click on a link that's supposed to initiate sending an e-mail (a "mailto:" link), Windows will try to launch the default mail application and tell it to compose a new mail message addressed to the address in the mailto: link.
As far as I know, there's no way to configure it to launch a web browser, log into your mail account and click on the "compose" link. If you can access your Yahoo! mail with a standard mail client (I don't use Yahoo! mail, so I don't know if you can), then you can set up Outlook Express, Thunderbird or whatever client you have installed to work this way. If not, then you're going to have to live without. As a workaround, you can right-click the mailto: link, copy the link and then paste it into the "To:" field in your Yahoo! mail window (remembering to strip the "mailto:" from the beginning).
To answer your first question. The default mail server is probably a reference to an smtp server you would be provided to use (an address like mail.<domian>.com) from your ISP. You would tell your email client (Outlook) to use that server to send messages to. That server would be responsible for routing those messages to other email servers.
When you use an email client or mobile devices for emailing, it's usually on a pop3 account.
I'm not sure if Yahoo provides this for free but I'd surprised if they didn't have a pay service. A standard Yahoo account is IMAP. I hear gmail uses pop3 for free. I could be wrong so someone feel free to correct me if I am.
Firefox once had an addon called WebMailCompose, but it doesn't work anymore. You could click on any email link and it would take you to compose. Somebody told me the workaround for it, but it's gotten lost in the shuffle. So I'm assuming you are running IE?
Therefore, I checked with a Verizon tech support, with a heavy accent.
When you got internet with Verizon, you also got email addresses (or 1) to use. You probably know your log in info such as user name & password.
Yahoo is most likely separate from Verizon. Yahoo is a web based email.
I never got into yahoo email. I dislike that you can't set it up in any email programs.
Your best bet is to use the Verizon email info
Verizon incoming mail server: incoming.verizon.net
Verizon outgoing mail server: outgoing.verizon.net
but if there is a reply to, type in your yahoo addy.
btw - after I typed this out I googled - you can try this for yahoo
Yahoo incoming mail server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
Yahoo outgoing mail server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
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If you can access your Yahoo! mail with a standard mail client (I don't use Yahoo! mail, so I don't know if you can), then you can set up Outlook Express, Thunderbird or whatever client you have installed to work this way. If not, then you're going to have to live without. As a workaround, you can right-click the mailto: link, copy the link and then paste it into the "To:" field in your Yahoo! mail window (remembering to strip the "mailto:" from the beginning).
