Hello Joe, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 6:19:18 AM, you wrote: JT> I have a problem with Yahoo JT> When I left click onto that email address I get this; Is this when you are using Outlook Express ( which I see you are using to send this ) to reply ? If so then it looks like Yahoo has been set to the default reply address for that e-mail address and to use Yahoo you need to be logged into the service. All Yahoo users are faced with this logging in business, it's just how Yahoo works. So it looks like you aren't actually logged into your Yahoo account and Outlook Express is wanting to send via Yahoo but it can't do this until you are logged in. Hence the link to the Yahoo login added to the front of the reply. JT> When I right click on the email address I get a dialogue which JT> invites me to copy the email address which I do and after this I JT> 'Create Mail' and paste the address into the new mail message then JT> write message and send. It's a work-around but messy :-( Is this only applicable to a few e-mail addresses or do you get it a lot ? I.E. were you able to send this e-mail without having to go through that Right Click process ?? If it's a real pain and happens all the time then that's a different issue to whether it only happens on a few addresses so it's important to know :-) JT> I have searched through my PC using just the word 'Yahoo' ... With Yahoo there's is little stored on the user's PC apart from the program itself, all the files and e-mails etc are stored on Yahoo's web servers and that's why it requires a login step to use the service. It's called Web Mail and the advantage of this is that you can access it from any PC in the world. Of course that isn't a priority for some but a lot of Yahoo and other web mail users find that a big advantage and will accept that it requires this login step as part of using it. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.10'Karmic'

Hi Barry and thanks for your reply, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry" <barry@yobunny.co.uk> To: "Joe Twitchin" <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Yahoo butts in ...why?? > Is this when you are using Outlook Express ( which I see you are using > to send this ) to reply ? If so then it looks like Yahoo has been set > to the default reply address for that e-mail address and to use Yahoo > you need to be logged into the service. All Yahoo users are faced with > this logging in business, it's just how Yahoo works. Yes for my mail I only use OE and have always exclusively. > So it looks like you aren't actually logged into your Yahoo account > and Outlook Express is wanting to send via Yahoo but it can't do this > until you are logged in. Hence the link to the Yahoo login added to > the front of the reply. I have never had a Yahoo account although my grandchildren may well have set it up on my PC at some time in the distant past.They no longer use it but may well have left me with this wretched legacy. > JT> When I right click on the email address I get a dialogue which > JT> invites me to copy the email address which I do and after this I > JT> 'Create Mail' and paste the address into the new mail message then > JT> write message and send. > It's a work-around but messy :-( Is this only applicable to a few > e-mail addresses or do you get it a lot ? I.E. were you able to send > this e-mail without having to go through that Right Click process ?? Yes,I sent my email to senior newbie without the right click procedure. > If it's a real pain and happens all the time then that's a different > issue to whether it only happens on a few addresses so it's important > to know :-) As I subscribe to a number of genealogy lists it often arises that a particular topic presents that I can either help with or would like to know more about and participants in that topic leave their email address(s).It is at this point that I left click on the email address and get the Yahoo invitation ....... right clicking allows me to copy the address which I paste into a new (create) email circumstance which is a pain in the elbow. > JT> I have searched through my PC using just the word 'Yahoo' ... > > With Yahoo there's is little stored on the user's PC apart from the > program itself, all the files and e-mails etc are stored on Yahoo's > web servers and that's why it requires a login step to use the > service. It's called Web Mail and the advantage of this is that you > can access it from any PC in the world. Of course that isn't a > priority for some but a lot of Yahoo and other web mail users find > that a big advantage and will accept that it requires this login step > as part of using it. It's all a big mystery. Take Care, Joe