[IRCA] OT: downloading emails

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm hoping someone with a lot of computer savvy can help me with what seems
to be a simple problem.  I'll be travelling soon for a few weeks and was
hoping to be able to download my email to be read off line.  My service
provider is shaw.ca which when I'm at home nicely downloads to my Eudora.
When traveling, the expectation is that you'll sign-on to their email server
and read it there.  Trouble is, this takes time and can be very pricey when
overseas.  When I spoke with their tech people, they say sorry, but it's not
possible.  Sounds like a poor excuse to me.  I thought I had the problem
solved when I started doing research into the issue and found that if I
forwarded all of my mail to my Gmail account and downloaded these to Mozilla
Thunderbird, I'd have solved the problem.  Well, when I tried this this
weekend in Masset, I was able to "download" the messages to Thunderbird, but
when off-line, none of the content could be read and instead I'd get an
error message saying that I was not on-line.  All I could see were the
subject lines in the in-box list.  Did I do something incorrect?  I followed
the instructions found on-line to the letter.  Hmmmm........Walt

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Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD
Victoria, BC, Canada
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