yes and I've even received e-mails from the forum side to sign up for the forums to start this thread. So if it were spam settings I would not have received those either right??
Not necessarily. Spam filters don't necessarily look for one element by default. They sometimes look for a combination of elements. So you could, conceivably, get several messages from the same sender where some make it through and some do not. It would all depend on the composition of the email message and its headers.
but when I use a lone wolf provided link as in reply #2 above I get:
" could not preform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed."
this is the error message I get when I try to send e-mails to the techs at
support@wolflair.com
So I really don't believe it's a spam problem. nor a browser issue.
I take it you use your web browser for email. You log in to your internet provider's web site, and click on a link to check your email. If you hover your mouse over the link in the #2 reply, you'll notice it starts with "mailto: ..."
You're clicking on a link with a protocol definition in front of it. When you click on it, your computer sees that protocol definition and wants to open the program appropriate for that protocol.
For example, links for web pages, I'm sure you've noticed, all start with "http:". So when you click on that link, you're telling your computer, "find the program on my computer that understands the http protocol", and that's usually your default web browser.
When you click on a "mailto:" link, you're telling your computer, "find the program on my comptuer that understands the mailto protocol". The problem is that if you use your web browser to check your email, it doesn't understand the mailto protocol, so your computer comes back and says, "I can't find an appropriate program."
You can either copy and past the address in the link, or you can install a dedicated email program like Thunderbird or "em Client" or something similar.
This would not explain why you're not receiving email, but it would explain why you get an error message when clicking on links to send email.