Email a File to My Computer

Mark said it all!

Just my few cents: The next time you log on a forum like this you should not use your email address as user name. As you will find many unwanted files on your computer one way or the other!

You used to be able to do that with Microsoft word and outlook or even outlook express. The names in the 3 files that contained lists were normaly coma deliminated so you could in fact use excel to make the 3 lists. Then if you get a book on word look up mail merge.

On the mail merge there use to be several options of where the addresses were comming from and it did not have to be folks in you contact list. In fact that was part of the idea as some companys were purchasing address lists and sending out notices by mail or e-mail and the mail where you just specify a printer or the email were you specify the file that has a list of names and the email address and do what was called a mail merge. If you did not care about the document looking like it was persoaly writen by you to them then leave out the names and just do what is called an email merge. Again the addreses are coma or tab deleiminated and any spread sheed will do that for you as an export. IF you want to do this all without paying hundreds of $ to MicroSoft then use the two freewares such as Open office or Libre office and for the email use thunderbird.

Or like one other fellow said just cut and paste the addresses. If you do the cut and paste of the adresses I normaly address TO myself and then BCC the ones that are cut and pasted else eveyone one the list will see every email address you used. Not a good thing in most cases.

I hope that helps you.

In short it is all doable.

Jim Davison

Beverly hills CA

You should be able to do this with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Outlook. I had a very quick Google for examples and came up with:

Check out the MailItem.SaveAs Method. You specify the path and file type.

Example:

Sub SaveEmail()

Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem ' assume an email is selected

Set msg = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)

' save as text

msg.SaveAs "C:\MyEmail.txt", olTXT

End Sub

The file type is a OlSaveAsType constant. Press F2 in the VBA Editor and paste this into the search box for the list of possible values.

It doesn't do exactly what you want, but is a start for you to build on.

Jimmyjoe's solution will work for Hotmail if you have a paid for account. I am not sure about the others. You can down load and up load email and/or contacts.

Kramarat You may very well have malware on your computer. Just because it does not show up in a scan means little these days. I put a contact _Alert into my contacts with my own email address so I know right away if I spammed the world. I have not done so in a few years knock on wood.

Stealth maleware

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/31/server-side-polymorphism-malware/

Yeah, it was. It turned my email into a spambot...hitting all of my contacts.

I got rid of it, but anymore, I keep things as tidy and secure as possible, even if it takes another short step to email somebody.

I've seen too many coincidences to trust ISPs, email providers, websites like facebook, google, any and all US government agencies, or anybody else.

Yes, I did the same with my contacts. I kept all the contacts that would understand a bit of spam (once every few years) and the others I cut and pasted in a draft email subject line contacts in a folder. Similar to what you did except I can assess the contacts from any computer.

I have no doubt the government has a back door into most security systems. For instance I can email professionally encrypted text but not encrypted with something I wrote many years ago. I got a nondescript error and the message is not sent. When I encrypted the same text with a ZIP encryption it worked just fine.

Still, I trust the government not to steal my identity or hijack my computer to perform some crime.

Just the advertising alone is getting positively annoying.

Just a little search on here, in regard to a thread, leads to pop up ads everywhere I go. It's not like my ISP is providing a service for free...far from it.

Pop-up adds are the best source for a malware infection because they are transient, they go to hundreds of web pages and the source is not as secure as some of the sites where they will be displayed. You even click on the popups which a hacker can use to fool your OS into thinking you concented to something like an installation. Not that they really need any concent these days. I suggest using something like add block which blocks all adds.

On email - could anyone advise me on how to re-direct or auto dump spam please?

I have tried many email "cures" e.g. spam arrest, MS lists, etc. which after a while
fail miserably. Some thing like what I would like to do is: have a "folder filter" where
every spam email received I place it into a folder and all later incoming is checked
against this list and if found there, auto deleted.?

Now approaching 2000 emails a day "something" has to be done. I usually change
my email for a few weeks (to give them time to p**s off) and then restore it.
Unfortunately this also loses the few pertinent emails I do wish to read.

I have tried this filtering with MS but it just does not work. For me at least.

Any helpful suggestions please? jt.

I'm into flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality - am I flogging a dead horse?

Now approaching 2000 emails a day "something" has to be done.

Yes that is incredable! There is not a good solution that I know of. Your address is on too many spam lists. I doubt letting your address 'cool off' does any good at all. I suggest you permenantly use a different address. This time do not post your email address on the web and never reply to anything that might be unsolicited. These are the most common ways to get on a spam list. A less common way is for a forum like this or a blog site has been hacked and all the email addresses were added to the lists. There was a epidemic of blog site attacks in April to June.

On some email providers you can filter out all but who is in your contact list. You might choose a provider like that for your new email address. You can always turn it on if the spam goes with you. If your spamming follows you I would suspect your computer is infected with malware. Most new malware can avoid detection by malware scanners. For details read my recent post on malware.

Like malware, spammers have learned how to get by protection schemes.

I've had the same email address for 19 years and haven't had any problems....recieve about 20 emails per day, stuff I've subscribed to. I would like to download folders and info saved on yahoo, any sugestions? I know I can print local, but I'd like to copy to cd and archive locally and print later.