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Q: All my emails I now send are not showing in my sent items box. All the other ones are there but new emails I send are not showing. I have only started using read receipts and it was suggest that they were jamming my email? On the bottom of the outlook tool bar its is saying sending message 1 of 10 but never seems to clear itself? It was suggested to download a program from Microsoft called MDBVU32.EXE. I went through the instructions but can’t seem to fix it?

Q: Using yahoo mail and windows 7 ultimate I sent an email with an attached pdf file to a friend . My PDF’s size was 370 KB.

My friend insists that the PDF he received was almost 10 times larger (being 3.51 MB)! He is on windows 7 Live Mail (Microsoft). I could not believe that and I told him that he obviously makes a mistake.

So, for evidence, we both provided each other with jpg captures showing the different sizes!

Then, for testing purposes I sent the same PDF to another email address (G Mail) and they confirmed that the size of the file received there was the same with that of my outgoing file (370KB),

I cannot understand how this can be done. If I am to believe the first recipient then we have to accept that an outgoing file might possibly be increased in size as much as ten times before reaching a recipient!

Is that at all possible?

Q: I received an attachment in a email through AOL and it is very important that I view it but when I open the attachment it opens in note pad and it is a bunch of gibberish its not words just symbol. How do I fix this so that I can open the attachment?

Q: I have a cell phone, laptop, and a desktop. All can get on the web. I have a Unknown email in the ‘sent list’ on outlook express that is not mine. How can I tell which device sent the email?

Q: I have a Dell computer that has Windows Vista and has Microsoft works. I just downloaded Microsoft Office 2007 onto my computer. However, when I want to open up an attachment that was sent to me by email I cannot open it even though the attachment is in a word document.

Q: My operating system is Windows XP. I receive my mail through Incredimal. All of the sudden out fo the blue, when I open my email attachments, they open in Itunes and I can’t view them.. Where do I go to change this setting? The emails do not give me a choice.

Q: I have Incredimail. I know my mail protocols are correct. Yet sometimes it will give me a error message. 550 550 This system is configured to reject mail from 209.183.34.49 [209.183.34.49] (Host blacklisted – Found on Realtime Black List server ‘xbl.spamhaus.org’)

What does this mean and how can I fix it?

Q: Why is my email address gone? There are no messages in my folder and address does not open.

Q: I have a Blackberry. Someone I’ve been seeing grabbed mine. . The dude also has a Blackberry. He recently picked up mine and starting fiddling with it. I thought nothing of it.

Last night I noticed that in the applications menu, under “tools” my email password was disabled. I reset the password thingy to password enabled. Now it’s disabled again.

Can another Blackberry user get into my Yahoo account from his own device if that password is disabled?

Q: On certain emails I get a message/warning that the content is in part unencrypted and may be easily seen by others. (not verbatim) Does this mean that there may be spyware or some kind of tracker placed in my computer when I open these emails?