Re: Making OE default mail server

From: Jay (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:51:16 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Make OE the default e-mail client:
>>http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx
>>
>>See this if it still does not set as default:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098
>>--
>>Bruce Hagen
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>>
>>
>>"Jay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message
>>news:196b901c44cfc$b650ba70$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> I've tried two ways to make OE the default mail
server.
>>> The first way is in OE, tools,options,general,default
>>> message program, but the box is grey and nothing
>happens
>>> when it's selected. The second way is Control
>>> panel,internet options, programs, but when I try to
put
>>> OE in the blue highlighted email program box,it
>>> doesn't take it.In this menu OE is listed as the
>program
>>> for newsgroups.
>>
>>
>>.
>>That's where I got the two methods that I described
>above. Neither worked.In the Microsoft article they talk
>about Editing the Windows Registry, but only if OE is
the
>default, and you can't send mail from mail links. I
>looked there and when you drill down under OE is says
for
>default "no value given". Somehow it won't take the
>default setup.
>.
>#306098 is what I used for the methods I described.
Neither method allows me to perform the task. I can't
type OE in the one box, even though OE is the box
underneath shows OE as the default Newsgroups software.
In the other method the boxes are grey and I can't select
the box to make OE the default email client.