Q:I need help to straighten out my e-mail after trying unsuccessfully to change from Microsoft Outlook Express to the Yahoo Mail website. All new e-mail is going to Yahoo, but how do I get the e-mail that’s in Microsoft Outlook back to Yahoo?
A: You need to do two semi-complicated things, and then all will be well.
First, you need to use the Forward command in Outlook Express to remail those Microsoft-hijacked messages back to your Yahoo e-mail area. Then you need to go to the Outlook Express Accounts tool and remove Yahoo’s settings. This will be either easy or odious, depending upon how many messages are involved.
Here’s the drill: Open Outlook Express and go to the e-mail module and call up your inbox. Now, you want to select a bunch of these messages and then click on the Forward icon in the tool bar. This will bring up an e-mail message with each of the messages attached. Address the message to yourname@yahoo.com and send away. This will return the messages and let you search them using Yahoo’s search tool, but it will not restore each message as a separate entry in the Web list of e-mails. I don’t have any problems with this because I always can open the forwarded messages and do a quick scan if necessary.
Second, you need to remove Outlook Express from the equation. Click on Tools in the Outlook Express tool and scroll down to Accounts. Open this and open the tab for Mail in the menu that appears. Then give your Yahoo account a right-click and click the Remove button you will see alongside the account box. This will stop Outlook Express from wreaking any more mischief with your Yahoo Web account.
Q: This is regarding your recent item about how some websites can be set so they cannot save a picture to a visitor’s own computer because the author set it so that the right-click picture save is disabled.
I have found I can get images “restricted” from right-click saving by going to the browser’s File menu and pulling down to “Save Page As …” and then choosing “Web Page, complete.” Admittedly, one gets a lot of junk from the Web page too, but somewhere in that folder of saved materials will be the graphics file I wanted.
A: Your solution draws attention to a great and little-used Web tool, which is the ability to store entire Web pages, complete with their graphics, on one’s computer for future use. It is a researcher’s dream come true.
There’s a whiff of shoplifting when one captures an image from somebody’s website and then stores it on one’s own hard drive. But I take the view that as long as you keep those images on your own machine and do not distribute them, you are simply exercising the rights of fair use settled by courts in the past.
So I say that with your trick, there is no harm done. Obviously, some website owners disagree. But, hey, without tension it would be a dull world indeed.
Contact Jim Coates at jcoates@tribune.com.
