Good Day to you from Sunny Rhode Island, Kris,
Well, as per our phone conversation, Cox only uses POP and automatically supported Outlook Express when we first began using their service.
I am not too enthused by this Setting up accounts for each mail user, as I find it a bit tedious just to get mail from an ISP on my Desktop. There definately is a learning curve involved. I finally wound up starting new Accounts that you had suggested. This seems to be working. He can now compose, send and receive mail. The rest is up to him as to how he wants to tailor it to his own needs. He will have to deal with how to set up group addresses etc...
Tom doesn't want to download all his mail to the Desktop, having learned, as I did about the dreaded End of File using Outlook. He wants to be able to compose without timing out automatically,have a more versatile way to use his group addresses, send webpage links to himself and do school related stuff.
I don't have enough familiarity with this newer Mac OS X Mail. My needs are far more simple and straightforward.
I am trying to coax him to use OS X. If he uses it for any length of time I think that he will be quickly weaned from the OS 9.2.2. He is not jumping on the OS X bandwagon just yet and is reserving judgement until he sees for himself if it is working to suit his needs.
He leaves the troubleshooting of the Mac to me and simply states when things don't/aren't working for him. Once I determine what he wants to do with the Mac, then I can attempt to deal with it.
Blessings and Prayers,
Myrna