Newsgroups

[Rick Morrison]

Trying to set up newsgroups in Outlook 2007. I followed the instructions in
help . . . toolbar options > add/remove > customize > categories > go. My
problem is that there is no News in the list shown. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Version of Windows? The news command doesn't work in Windows 7 - all it does
is bring up OE or Mail anyway. Win7 doesn't include a mail/news client so
you need to install windows live mail or other nntp client.

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[Rick Morrison]

Yeo, that's the problem - Windows 7. The reason I'm trying to do this is to
get rid of Windows Live Mail.

Thanks, Rick

Version of Windows? The news command doesn't work in Windows 7 - all it
does is bring up OE or Mail anyway. Win7 doesn't include a mail/news
client so you need to install windows live mail or other nntp client.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

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Trying to set up newsgroups in Outlook 2007. I followed the instructions
in help . . . toolbar options > add/remove > customize > categories >
go. My problem is that there is no News in the list shown. What am I
doing wrong?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

 

[Gordon]

Yeo, that's the problem - Windows 7. The reason I'm trying to do this is to
get rid of Windows Live Mail.

Then you'll need a third-party Newsreader add-in for Outlook. Outlook
doesn't do news natively.
Mapilab seems to have one of the favourites...

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You'll either need a different nntp client, an addin for outlook or use a
hack to install Vista's Mail in Win7.

See http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/news.htm for addins and
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/05/download-windows-mail-from-vista-for-use-in-windows-7/
for the hack.

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Yeo, that's the problem - Windows 7. The reason I'm trying to do this is
to get rid of Windows Live Mail.

Thanks, Rick

Version of Windows? The news command doesn't work in Windows 7 - all it
does is bring up OE or Mail anyway. Win7 doesn't include a mail/news
client so you need to install windows live mail or other nntp client.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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Poll: What version of Exchange server do you use?
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Trying to set up newsgroups in Outlook 2007. I followed the
instructions in help . . . toolbar options > add/remove > customize >
categories > go. My problem is that there is no News in the list shown.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

 

[Peter Foldes]

Rick

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Yeo, that's the problem - Windows 7. The reason I'm trying to do this is to get
rid of Windows Live Mail.

Thanks, Rick

Version of Windows? The news command doesn't work in Windows 7 - all it does is
bring up OE or Mail anyway. Win7 doesn't include a mail/news client so you need
to install windows live mail or other nntp client.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Poll: What version of Exchange server do you use?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=33803

Trying to set up newsgroups in Outlook 2007. I followed the instructions in
help . . . toolbar options > add/remove > customize > categories > go. My
problem is that there is no News in the list shown. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

 

[VanguardLH]

Trying to set up newsgroups in Outlook 2007. I followed the instructions in
help . . . toolbar options > add/remove > customize > categories > go. My
problem is that there is no News in the list shown. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Rick Morrison

There has never been NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) support in any
version of Outlook. To get newsgroups to show up inside of Outlook means
you have to install an add-in, like Newshound (but there are limitations in
how Outlook itself can organize those newsgroups). For the vast majority of
users, Outlook's "News" menu merely loaded whatever was the currently
defined default newsgroups program which was usually Outlook Express.
Outlook doesn't do newsgroups. It loads some other program to do that.

As Diane pointed out, the News menu isn't available under Windows 7. So
what? Outlook wasn't doing newsgroups before, anyway. It loaded something
else. It isn't any more difficult to hit a shortcut in a toolbar in your
Windows taskbar, like in the QuickLaunch toolbar, than to navigate through
the Outlook menus to select "News". Both end up starting a program.

So, like before, you'll have to decide what program you want to use to do
newsgroups. Unless you were using an add-in, you weren't using Outlook
before so you get the same choice to make now. OE is obviously a long-dead
program. Microsoft's replacement for it is Windows Live Mail. That's one
choice; however, since you have to now make an obvious and deliberate choice
(rather than rely on defaults offered by the Windows installation), you
might also want to start investigate alternate newsreaders.