At 09:05 PM 2/18/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part, the following:
>Well, while he had me on hold, I went into OE itself, and looked at an >area I normally never look at, ever since I originally set the program >up some time ago - the options selection. > >At the bottom of the general tab under options is something I had never >noticed before - it has 2 items at the very bottom, one for email and >the other for newsgroups. Unless you click on one or the other or both, >OE will NOT be the default for either item. BUT unless you do, no matter >what you declare to use with regard to internet options, IF you click on >a mailto link in an email or a web site, OE will NOT come up and all you >will get is this stupid message box that no mail program has been setup >to send mail for internet links. When I did click on them, and click >apply, mailto links now properly work as they should in OE as well as >IE. > >When the level 2 tech came back on the phone, I told him what I had >discovered, and the call ended up at least on a high note, that at least >all had gone well. > >BUT, after all this, I can NOT believe this would have had to be done at >all, to begin with. Since I had told internet options to use OE for >email, WHY in the world did I have to set OE as the default email >program to get things to work properly???? > >Another mystery of Microsoft I guess I will never understand, along with >MANY others I have run into over the years. No mystery at all. You have two separate programs (or actually three if you you use use Usenet) that can be set up to use e-mail. IE and Outlook Express. The setup in IE is for clickable links in HTML web pages to select a default e-mail and or Usenet newsreader program. The setup in OE is for clickable links in e-mail and Usenet news to select a default e-mail and or Usenet newsreader program. What happens if you use IE and Netscape for browsing, Eudora for e-mail and Agent for a newsreader You want IE to select Eudora when selecting a web page mailto link. Likewise, if you have to use OE for e-mail reading but wish to use Eudora to send e-mail. And if you happen to use another Usenet newsreader like Agent that you want to be the default newsreader. I happen to use all these combinations. I have my own domain (expita.com) that is hosted by superb.net. I also have another shell account at eskimo.com and I happen to have earthlink.net as my DSL provider. So I logon to Earthlink with OE (to read email sent to my earthlink account) but I want Eudora to be my e-mail program for all accounts. I use Agent as my newsreader. My Eudora is set to read e-mail from my expita.com domain and send mail via earthlink's SMTP mailer daemon. I use both IE and Netscape for browsing. If I click on a browsable link I want Eudora to be my E-mail program and Agent to be my newsreader. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
