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OE5.5 Not the default Mail handler MAPI errors!
Chuck Le Mieux clemi...@att.net microsoft public outlook installation The options for default mail and news in my Outlook Express are grayed out. This is keeping me from designating Outlook as my mail handler. How does one remedy this problem? -- URL: http://otool.hypermart.net/ URL:

OE will not default as mail handler
The solution proposed by Palm if you already have OE installed on your PC is to make OE the default mail handler. You have to go in the OE menu: Tools, Options and then at the bottom of the General Tab, click on the button "Make default" besides the text "this application is the default mail handler".

default mail handler
In IE it is shown as default mail and news program but when I check in OE no matter how many times I change it, it keeps saying it is NOT the default handler when I go back in and I still don't have any selection for simple MAPI client - whatever that is anyway. Guess I'll just have to send my photos the old

Default Mail Handler/Client setting won't stay on IE and OE
Toolbar. Close and re-start your machine. Before you do, please check with anyone else who may be sharing the same machine whether they have made GMail as the default mail-to handler. If they have, leave it as it is and use a different user profile for your log on or the browser for your kind of setup. -------

Making OE6 my default email handler
Using netscape 7.02 and W98 Also using Outlook Express as my Default e-mail handler. Whenever I try to fill out a form from a site in netscape, Netscape 7 shouldn't become the default mail handler unless it tell it to do so. If you have an old or current AOL Instant Messenger screen name and password,

Default MAIL handler
Hi, For some reason I can't get outlook express to be my default mail handler. I have gone in options and selected "default mail handler" but when i go into the options again, i resets itself to not being the mail handler. How do i get it to stay as a default mail handler? The reason i ask is because the mail/new

Outlook Express Default Mail Handler
I use OE 5 as my default mail handler. I verified that it is set as the default. When I run an app that builds an email msg using MAPI I get a "no default mail handler - run Outlook and set it as the default". Why doesn't the MAPI process recognize OE 5 as my default mail handler?

OE v6 - default mail handler
When I am using MS Word and want to send a document as an e-mail, does anyone know how I can change the default mail handler from Outlook Express to Outlook? MS Excel sends the message through Outlook fine, but for some reason MS Word wants to send it through Outlook Express (which I don't use - I use Outlook).

Making OE the default mail handler.
L Beck lmac200...@syringa.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support When that message "this is not your default mail handler" comes up, it should ask you if you want to make it your default, at which time you should select "Yes". "Irene" <groov...@hug.com.au> wrote in message

W2K default mail handler link broken.
alah4 al...@hotmail.com microsoft public word mail go to internet explorer then tools ,options then programs then change to word alah4 "Phil Stokes" <Phil_stNOSPAMo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:caa401c21596$8ffd8730$95e62ecf@tkmsftngxs02... When I try to Email direct from Word2000, the mail handler that

Making Windows Mail My Default Mail Handler
I'd expected MSOE to appear as my "Default Mail Handler." I strongly suspect this is yet another "perturbation" which results from my installation of the August IE 6.0 patch which I downloaded from the Microsoft Windows Update site, as a "critical update." I went to Internet Options' Programs tab.

Default mail handler?
In Outlook Express version 5 when I go into tools - options - General and click the button to make Outlook Express my default mail handler, the "apply" button then becomes active, so I click on that and then click on okay. However, when I go back to tools later outlook express is NOT my default mail handler.

Making outlook express my Default mail handler.
I want to make OE as my default mail handler. In OE I click on Tools>Options>General and see in the Default Messaging Programs area that "This application is NOT the default mail handler". I click the Make Default button and the display changes accordingly. I click on Apply and OK.

Default mail handler? Means what?
Then in OE's Tools, Options, General at the bottom of its page in the Default Messaging Programs area it tells me that this Application is NOT the default Mail handler. I can click to make it the default and then Apply and OK. Now I can use OE normally. Before that I could not access the web from URLs located in

HELP !! How to have Outlook Express as Default Mail Handler ???
pro...@rome.com comp mail eudora ms-windows On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:44:36 GMT, "Elliott Alterman" <ealter...@earthlink.net> wrote: Somehow, Outlook Express has taken over and become my default Mail handler. Isn't that part of Bill Gates' plan? <g> Barry Karas.

Email link issue
I tried manually setting the flag by going into "tools", "options", "general" and clicking on "make default" at the bottom for mail handler, then click "apply" and "okay". If I immediately go back to this (without even leaving OE), it says it's NOT the default mail handler. Incidentially, I have the same problem

Outlook express not default mail handler
Outlook express is not my default mail handler therefore when I hit reply to ??? on my toolbar my system tries to make me use the full version of Microsoft Outlook. I would prefer to make OE my default but if I do, the send to ...fax recipient in Microsoft Word Tries to send my faxes through OE.

default mail handler
I also have Outlook on my PC, but I am not using it. When I set OE as the default mail handler in tools/options and click apply, then OK, then go back in to tools/options straight away, it is NOT the default mail handler. I can't see how to tell Outlook NOT to be the default mail handler.

OE as default email handler
Is there any facility for making my OL2K the default mail handler instead. At the minute if I go to View - Go To - News, it just opens up OE5. Yes, the latter is configured as the default mail handler but there doesn't appear to be any way to change that within the program or am I missing something.

How to set OL the default mail handler?
So I followed the instructions and OE is now my default mail handler in IE 6.0 and once again, I can send email when clicking on a link on a web page. Thank you for your quick response. Rick "Rick" wrote: I would like Outlook Express to be my Default Mail Handler but am unable to do so. I used Regedit to locate the