Difficulty Entering Competitions Online

[888]

How come I am unable to enter an online competition, eg when given a choice of text, phone or online and nothing happens when I choose to click online saying I'm not set up by default or something? Hope this makes sense!

[Buenchico]

At a guess, you're clicking on a link which goes to the email address of the competition organiser. The way that Windows works is that doing so is designed to open your default email client (such as Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird) with the recipient's email address, possibly together with the subject of the email, already filled in. If you don't use an email client (because you access your email via a web page instead) it won't work. You need to find out the actual email address and send a mail normally (i.e. without going via the link). You can probably do that by right-clicking on the link, selecting 'Copy email address', creating a new email as you normally would, and then right-clicking in the address bar and selecting 'Paste'.

[murraymints]

like chris said ...ps how are the kitts doing ?

[Buenchico]

(With apologies to 888 for going off-topic):

The 'kittens' are all fine thank you, MM, if you ignore the lumps of fur missing from Biscuit after yet another fight with a neighbour's moggie! However they're no longer very kitten-like because two of them are already well over 5kg!

[wolf63]

888 - my PC has died and I am using my Macbook just now. I am having problems like this when I try to enter any competitions by email. I eventually managed to set-up/link the Macbook and my G-Mail account. It is still a little hit and miss.

Good luck

[murraymints]

:0) ...miaw ..purrr purr...xx









miaw

purr purr !

[888]

Thanks Buenchico & wolf63, still as clear as mud!. I'll look into it later and see what's what. It was a lot easier with Basildon Bond wasn't it?.... Wasn't it?.