Q3: How do I stop getting six to 12 emails every day telling me how to enlarge bits of my body, view photos of nude women, discharge my mortgage or win trillions of dollars?Ī: It seems the longer we have an email address the more spam we receive and that's probably made worse by putting our contact details on Web sites and signing up for things. As you have discovered, without this any changes to the mail server settings will be reset with live update. If you don't want the email scanning feature, you will have to disable it. There is a help file at the Symantec Web site. The makers of Norton say the program should be able to connect to any mail server using POP3 (the most common standard).
Unless, of course, it's unable to connect to your ISP. If you want the program to scan your messages in this manner you don't actually have to change a thing. In order to do this the program will change the mail server settings as you have described. In order to check incoming messages, it sets up a proxy on your computer, communicating on your behalf with your ISP's mail server and briefly intercepting messages for scanning before they arrive in your inbox. I can go through the settings and change it back each time, but there must be a better way?Ī: Norton AntiVirus has a feature for email scanning.
Q2: When I run a live update on Norton AntiVirus, the program usually adds itself as the server for incoming mail, using in place of the usual address. You can also look online at places such as or FreeURL's spell check.
One solution is to install a third-party spell-checker, such as Spell Checker for Edit Boxes, SpellChecker or MicroSpell. If you don't have something such as Word installed, Outlook Express shows the spell-check as disabled and greyed out. It does not have a dictionary of its own and must borrow the feature from other Microsoft products with spell-checkers. So far he has been unable to turn it on.Ī: While the feature has a spot reserved in the settings of Outlook Express, spellcheck is not actually included in the program. When he taps Tools, Options, he does not have the spelling tab on this options window. When composing an email the spellcheck button appears on his toolbar, but it is apparently not activated.
Click Do not check selling or grammar twice to remove the tick and spell check the entire email.Q1: My father uses Windows 98 and Outlook Express 6. Select the entire message then switch on the Options tab and click on Language. You'll need to change the check spelling option manually for each message.
The best solution would be to use stationery or another method to inset the text, not signatures… if only the Mac version supported stationery or autotext. When I edit the text, spell checking doesn’t work. We use signatures to add prepared text to a message. The Set Language dialog is identical to the one in Outlook 2010: Deselect the Do not checking spelling and grammar option near the bottom of the dialog.Ī Mac user had a question about spellchecking email: In Outlook 2007, expand the Spelling button and choose Set Language. In Outlook 2010 and above, select the entire message body ( Ctrl+A to select all) switch to the Review tab, Language button, Set Proofing Language command and remove the check from Do not check spelling or grammar. If F7 doesn't check the signature, you will need to change the style so that it doesn't skip text when checking the spelling. Or press F7 to run spell check manually on the entire message. You can select just the text you typed and Cut it ( Ctrl+X), then use Paste Special, as text to paste it in the message body area above the signature, if you know where the signature begins. Note: this will remove formatting, images, and hyperlinks from the message. Note: the RFC specifies two dashes followed by a space: "- " as the signature separator.Īdding the dashes to the signature won’t help you with the current message though – to fix spell check in the message, you can select all and cut the message body (including the signature) then use Paste Special, As Text to paste it back into the message in plain text format. Why two dashes? The RFC’s recommend using it to separate the message from the signature.
If you have accounts that you do not want to use a signature on, create a blank signature that contains just the dashes & space to use when you don't want to use a signature. Repeat to turn the formatting characters off.) (To see the pilco and other formatting marks, press Ctrl+Shift+8 to toggle them on. This will help you to see where the signature begins and prevent typing in the signature area. Edit your signatures to include two dashes and a space ("- ") above the actual signature.