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At KCL they refuse to support Ms Outlook or Outlook Express because of the lack of a secure address book/tendency to "catch" viruses and spread them. The main supported e-mail client is "Execmail" which used to be Simeon, I believe. In the past I used Outlook & Outlook Express, but found Eudora superior for my needs. I have used Dragon with most free (sponsored) versions of Eudora. DNS Pro 7.3 also works very well with webmail, including KCL's, Lycos (formerly eudoramail), and Yahoo. Within Eudora (now version 6.1.2.0) many items have keyboard shortcuts, so it's very easy to build commands. So I can "check all mail", "reply to message", "attach file", "delete mail from server", "mark as read", "make filter", "go to In box", "read next message", "transfer message", etc., by voice. Re dictation: Yes, you can dictate into Eudora without problems. Correction, however, has been harder since version 6. If you use the standard "correct that" right away (or "correct X"), things are fine, until the corrected text is typed in, most often overwriting more than just the misrecognised text. I now use "select that" "select X X X", etc. and then choose the correct choice. The correct choice IS usually there, often as choice number one. If none are correct, saying "correct that" at this point brings up those choices, in an editable manner. Choosing the correct version of what you dictated usually does not result in overwritten text. I find, however, that DNS only remembers a few lines at a time within Eudora. Using "scratch that" is also safer than "undo that" in this version of Eudora as otherwise you often undo more than the last utterance, in many instances. Sorry if I've run on too long re this, but for many reasons Eudora has been excellent, so working around its issues (which may change with DNS8, and/or with Eudora 7!) is worth it to me. In any case, most things can be automated easily, so I have stuck with Eudora. I hope this has been useful. Regards, Celia At 15:27 10/11/2004, Cowling, Mark wrote: >I use Dragon Standard Edition, which does not work with Outlook email, >at least as a remote user. I simply open Dragon Pad or Word, dictate my >email there and copy it. This might be thought tedious but I also find >it is very easy to miss mistakes in dictated material as they don't show >up in the way traditional typos do. Copying the material onto a >different format often helps me find additional errors. Curiously, >Dragon Standard works fine with Yahoo! Email - but I still tend to do >the copying process, both to find mistakes and because my dictation gets >understood as commands some of the time. > >Mark Cowling > >-----Original Message----- >From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of L Gault, Planning and >Administration Support >Sent: 10 November 2004 14:02 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Email and Dragon > >Apologies for cross posting. > >Dear all, > >I'd like to find out what email packages individuals are using with >Dragon Naturally Speaking. How successful has this been and whether >there are any good workarounds when it comes to packages that are not >supported by Dragon? > >At the University of Bristol we use an email package called 'Mulberry' >which does not seem to be compatible with Dragon. The other possible >option at present is using Simeon. But again this doesn't seem to be >compatible. > >At present the University doesn't support the recommended packages: (as >taken from the user guide) > >America Online(r) versions 8 and 9. Only one version of version 9 is >supported. >Please check our Web site for the correct version information: >www.ScanSoft.com/NaturallySpeaking/support/ >| Microsoft(r) Outlook(r) versions 2000, XP, and 2003 (Professional and >higher >editions) >| Microsoft(r) Outlook(r) Express versions 5 and 6 (Professional and >higher >editions) >| Lotus(r) Notes(r) 5, 6, and 7(Professional and higher editions) > >This is obviously something that needs to be addressed here to support >our Dragon users. What do other organisations use and how successful is >it? > >Any advise gratefully received. > >Kind regards > >Lisa >---------------------------------------------- >Lisa Gault >IT Disability Coordinator >Planning and Administration Support >University of Bristol >Tyndall Avenue >Bristol >BS8 1TJ >Tel: 0117 331 6739. Internal: 16739 >---------------------------------------------- >[log in to unmask] Regards, Celia Disability Support Officer, Equality & Diversity Department, King's College London, 7.36 James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA Tel: 020 7848 3799 Fax: 020 7848 3490. This message may have been typed, but on a typically bad RSI /WRMDs (Work related Musculoskeletal Disorders) day it will have been produced using voice recognition software; please ignore any dictation errors I failed to recognise and correct. For appointments, please contact the Office Co-ordinator ([log in to unmask]); 020 7848 3398.