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Jeffrey Kaplan
Using Outlook '07 as part of Office Standard '07 in XP Pro. I use
Outlook only for its PIM functions, not for email. I don't even have
any email accounts configured in it.
I sync my handheld, currently an iPhone, to Outlook for the address
book and calendar.
The option in Outlook's Tools \ Options \ Other to "Make Outlook the
default program for email, contacts and calendar" is NOT checked. The
system Control Panel \ Internet Options \ Programs: "Email" setting is
NOT set to Outlook, it has my preferred email client selected. In my
preferred email client's own settings, it IS set to be the default
client for email. So far as I can tell, all of my settings are correct
for the behavior I want: I want my preferred email client to load, if
it's not already running, and open an email composition window
addressed to the recipient if I click a Mailto link or otherwise use a
"send email" command.
Yet when I do just that, it only works if my email client is already
open. If it's not already running, I instead get an error message
telling me that the operation could not be performed because the email
client is not properly configured. Clicking OK on that and I get an
email composition window from Outlook.
What is broken here, and how do I fix it?
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Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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[reading] "Declaration of War... the short form." (President Widmark,
"Buckaroo Banzai")
Outlook only for its PIM functions, not for email. I don't even have
any email accounts configured in it.
I sync my handheld, currently an iPhone, to Outlook for the address
book and calendar.
The option in Outlook's Tools \ Options \ Other to "Make Outlook the
default program for email, contacts and calendar" is NOT checked. The
system Control Panel \ Internet Options \ Programs: "Email" setting is
NOT set to Outlook, it has my preferred email client selected. In my
preferred email client's own settings, it IS set to be the default
client for email. So far as I can tell, all of my settings are correct
for the behavior I want: I want my preferred email client to load, if
it's not already running, and open an email composition window
addressed to the recipient if I click a Mailto link or otherwise use a
"send email" command.
Yet when I do just that, it only works if my email client is already
open. If it's not already running, I instead get an error message
telling me that the operation could not be performed because the email
client is not properly configured. Clicking OK on that and I get an
email composition window from Outlook.
What is broken here, and how do I fix it?
--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol
[reading] "Declaration of War... the short form." (President Widmark,
"Buckaroo Banzai")