Iain, POP is probably only for receiving mail, probably need smtp settings for sending. When you say its sent but not recieved what are the details?

have you seen this Sky email setup

Iain. I can use my Sky email addresses for sending and receiving via BT Yahoo. I don't usually use O/E.

I opened O/E up & tried to send & receive a message via my Sky A/c and got "An unknown error has occurred. Subject '', Account: 'pop.sky.com', Server: 'smtp.sky.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 Spam', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC69".

Iain. By the way, my setting for Sky emails are i/c pop.sky.com & o/g smtp.sky.com

It would appear that you need to set the incoming server to pop.sky.com and the outgoing server to smtp.sky.com. However, if you are using an ISP other than sky then you may need to set your outgoing server to that recommended by your ISP.

Sky now use Google Mail and the settings have changed.

O/G

smtp.tools.sky.com
use SSL
Port 465

I/C

pop.tools.sky.com
Port 995

Use your full email address as username

You'll also need to check their webmail regularly as they put a lot straight into spam so it never reaches Outlook

Bloody Sky! Tried all the above.Still working on it.

Forgot to mention that you must also enable POP downloads in your Sky Email account online.

Can I have two web domain addresses pointing to the same site? We have two different business names and I'd like to have a second domain name pointing to the same web pages.

Not a problem as such guys, but bear with me.

Are any of the inhabitants of this thread real techies who are either senior management or owners of software development companies, or in a senior development position in these areas?
The thing is, I have been working on a software based business idea for some time, alongside West Yorkshire Ventures, who have kindly provided funding. I have had market research done that shows the concept is solving a real problem and that the great unwashed would be happy to see it available.
I am now in a position where I need to develop a mock up, for trialling and demonstration purposes before searching out a specialist in the third area required and going to market for initial proposals on LoI and/or funding.
The potential is massive, but I am now out of spare cash to fund the rest of the project and while WYV will fund further research of the market, business plans, accountancy and legal services etc. to the tune of about 60k, they will not fund the development of the software and instead I need to find a person or company with the necessary skills to partner me in the development. This makes sense as it will not be a one off program. The users are likely to require adaptations all the time.
In summary, if you fit the bill, please e-mail me by clicking on the envelope icon if you are prepared to discuss this with me or offer advice.
Unfortunately it will be under the terms of a Non Disclosure agreement as the information is market sensitive and there is the potential for it to contain IP.
Thanks for bearing with me.
Alan

About 10 months ago through Dell I purchased a laptop with a Vista upgrade included. I upgraded about 2 months later. The upgrade also included 3 years McAffee protection. My laptop has since run fairly slow (spec is OK so that's not a problem), but I have heard that McAffee slows systems down to quite an extent. Previously I ran free source AVG and found no problem. I'm a bit reluctant to remove McAffee after getting it included in the package but if it would increase my laptop speed a few notches I will consider it. Before I do I would value other opinions, experiences.
Thanks in advance.

greekman

I've no direct experience of McAffee but understand that like all good AV programs it can be a resource hog.

Only you can decide how much protection you need, but you could consider downgrading your AV protection if you use a really good external firewall router although that won't help if you use it away from home.

If you want to make Vista go faster, you could turn off some of the bells and whistles. I find that the sidebar can often become a serious resource hog especially after a few hours use. Also, go into task manager and check how many processes are running and which are taking the CPU resoureces. Try to reduce the number of processes.

Make sure that you have 2 GB of memory.

I've been running SP1 RC1 since before Xmas with no problems and although it does little to speed things on a good day, IE7 does open faster and the system seems generally more stable but bear in mind that it is a beta version.

Optomist,

Thanks for that, never considered that the sidebar might be slowing things down. I do have 4 items running on the sidebar, will try it.

Regards Greek.

On my CPU the biggest resource is taken up by something called Teatimer.exe.
Not sure what it is, or if it should be there. Will try to find out.

greekman - unplug your kettle :-)

greekman

For Teatimer, check this.

Thanks. Downloaded a Teatime cleaner, but now cant find it. Will keep trying.

Kayak,

Can't afford an electric kettle. Have to put water on hot coals.

Found it. Scan shows over 600 faulty registry entries. Will get the results looked at by someone who is far more competent with computers than I am.

Greek,
I use regfix.
Its free and most of the registry entries appear to be left over from removing programs or have been put their as temporary thingies by programs installing.
With Regfix, it backs up all changes you make, so if it goes Pete Tong, you can go back to your old registry.

Thanks. Already downloaded 'Uniblue registry booster'.
It states click and will repair all unwanted entries. I'm very wary of clicking YES as I have been told that the registry is a dangerous thing to tamper with (in all honesty I'm more scared of computers than I am of the wife, and that's saying something). I might just pay a local techie who specializes in PC clean-ups. Might seem a waste of money to you more knowledgeable lot but as said I'm very wary of computers.
Still grateful to those who have replied.

Regards Greek.

Hi Alan,

The Uniblue I downloaded will only clean out 15 faults, unless I pay for the full version.
I put regfix into Google and it bought up several sites.
Any chance of you posting the full title of the one you use and where you downloaded it from. This would be much appreciated.

Greek.