Russ,
I have used OE for many years. It was all I needed being self-employed
working from my home office. Not until this year did I switch to Outlook
2003
due to doing consulting work for a company in their office here in town.
They
all use Outlook, and I could not open archived emails on the many
engineering
projects that we do. So I bit the bullet and switched. I have had this
problem ever since. I just upgraded to Outlook 2007 last week, and the
problem is still there. I was hoping the upgrade would fixc it, but it did
not. I have been searching for a fix for months, to no avail.
I haven't done anything as far as I know that could have caused this.
Outlook 2003 was always on my computer, I just chose to use OE instead,
which
basically made it my default until I switched to Outlook 2003. I just
switched it in the IE 7 options.
Again, I appreciate your time on this.
Thanks,
CD
Russ Valentine said:
Sorry. I missed your post. I cannot reproduce this at all, nor have I
seen
it reported. I don't have Outlook 2007 running on XP, though, so I can't
recreate the environment exactly. I'll see if anyone else can.
Can you think of any changes you made to your system that turned OE into
your default program for MailTo:?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Russ,
Just checking in on this. Did you come up with any possibilities that
may
resolve this?
Thanks,
CD
:
No. That should do it. Next thing to check is that you have a valid
mail
transport in your default Outlook profile. Also, which type of files
are
you
trying to send and how?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
1.) URL:MailToProtocol is
"C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c
IPM.Note /m "%1".
2.) OS is XP Pro
3.) Outlook is default mail client in IE Tools-Options-Programs
Is there somewhere else that I can set a default mail client other
than
in
the IE options?
:
Nothing is clear. You answered one of my three questions. I'm
beginning
to
see the problem here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I was very clear on everything as far as mail protocol. It is not
"obviously"
OE, it is Outlook, as I stated, very clearly. Mail protocol is
Outlook.
OS
is
XP Pro.
What I want to end up with is the ability to select multiple
files,
then
right click, hit send to, then some sort of short cut, and all
attachments
will open up in an Outlook message. Basically EXACTLY like it
does
for
OE.
Outlook sucks, this is just crazy.
Nobody has been able to fix this issue yet, and it has been a
year
or
two
of
headaches.
Thanks,
CD
:
Insufficient information.
We don't know your operating system. We don't know how you
designated
your
"default mail client," but it is obviously still Outlook
Express.
We
don't
know what you have set as the path statement for
URL:MailToProtocol
A
shortcut would not be in play here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I do not know why this problem exists, and all fixes that I
have
seen
posted
have not worked. I cannot right click on a file, hit 'send
to',
'mail
recipient', and have an Outlook window open with the file
already
attached.
In fact, it opens in Outlook Express, although my chosen
default
mail
client
is Outlook. Creating a short cut in the "Send to" folder to
Outlook.exe
with
the command "/c ipm.note" at the end does not work. It gives
an
error
message
that the command line argument is not valid, although it reads
just
as
it
should. Does anybody know how to fix this? It is driving me
crazy.
Thanks,
CD