I never encourage people to upgrade before they need to. Windows XP still does fine. The day when the need for Windows 7 is unavoidable will come soon enough. But upgrading every time MS says boo just makes us participants in the rat race. Better to conserve energy and resources. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yadiel Sotomayor Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:00 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Outlook 2003: problem with outgoing mails I don't know about OE, but there is no windows mail on win7. Its name is windows life mail. Now, I know that outlook 2007 and 2010 does work with windows 7. Maybe you should upgrade. From: Hamid Hamraz Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:28 AM To: jfw list Subject: Outlook 2003: problem with outgoing mails Dear all, I am using windows XP SP3 and outlook 2003. I have configured my Gmail account exactly as stated in Gmail help. I receive the incoming mails, but I can not send anything, without any kind of error message! Any suggestions? (I have imported the settings from OE, and then modified it to the ones in gmail help.) I really prefer to use OE, but I am switching to windows 7 soon. So I am looking for a well accessible counterpart for OE. Can OE be installed on windows 7, instead of windows mail? Any suggestions/comments is greatly appreciated. Cheers! Hamid Yadiel J. Sotomayor E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx