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Posted by Alan Smith on August 28, 2005, 9:08 pm
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>>> AS 4.0 (built 4343) always gives a pop-up error message about Outlook
>>> not being my default mailer when device connects.
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>> I use both programs, use OE as my email and newsgroup interface but use
>> Outlook for the diary (and a couple of other things) and have Outlook set
>> as the default. It makes no difference to the way either of the programs
>> work.
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> Not entirely true - if you try to reply (by email) to a newsgroup post
> from within OE, Outlook will pop up to do it, same with clicking on
> any 'mailto:' links on websites etc - an inconvenience, as you have to
> copy email address, close Outlook and go back to OE.
> I also use Outlook for calendar, tasks, notes etc, but do not want to
> use it for email (tried - didn't like it), but was force to set it as
> default
> for exactly same reason: AS 4.0 (unlike, what I gather is a majority
> here, I was having some problems with AS 3.8 and none after
> changing to AS 4.0 ...)
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> --
> Cheers,
> Dave
Outlook does not work natively with newsgroups. It use Outlook Express to
work with newsgroups. Outlook does not popup. You need to sort your setup.
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