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Re: Outlook Express problems
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:24:20 GMT
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Todd,
Unfortunately, I have used 2 different versions of OE. I am currently using
the most recent version available. I will probably have to switch to a
different newsreader. I wonder if it has to do with using OE for news only
and using Outlook for mail? Anyway, I just have to find a new newsreader.
Any suggestions on what works best?
In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> Mike, what you are asking for is a modification to the newsserver in order
> to work around a bug in Microsoft Outlook Express.
>
> That bug -- and I have no idea how or why it manifests itself -- only that
> most people don't see it, yet several people have -- is that MSOE sometimes
> drops the username when you post, and only sends your email address, and
> worse, it sometimes sends garbage. For example, MSOE has incorrectly sent
> these when you have posted:
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> From: lego@poindexter.cc
> and
> From: <"Mike Poindexter" <lego@poindexter.cc>>
> and
> From: "ÐÇ" <lego@poindexter.cc>
> and
> From: "Æø" <lego@poindexter.cc>
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> And you have (presumably) filled out your personal configuration such that
> it -should- be sending either:
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> From: Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc>
> or
> From: lego@poindexter.cc (Mike Poindexter)
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> (I can't imagine that you and 10 other people have all put the same types of
> garbage into your configuration dialogs. :-) So this is nothing more than
> a really horrible, terrible bug in MSOE.
>
> Yes, you -can- post to other newsservers which aren't picky about bugs like
> this, but for now I can only suggest that you try reinstalling MSOE (this
> worked for at least one person) or switching to a different newsreader.
> (There are several very high-quality Windows newsreaders out there, so MSOE
> isn't your only option.)
>
> Alternatively, you might contact Microsoft and see if they have a bug-fix or
> a more recent version of MSOE that you could download. Mike Stanley has
> succeeded in getting MSOE to work very well (several times), so maybe you
> simply have an obsolete version of it...?
>
> --Todd
>
> [followups set to lugnet.admin.general]
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 | | Re: Outlook Express problems
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| Mike Poindexter wrote in message ... (...) using (...) I'm not using the latest version of Outlook Express, and I don't use it for mail (I use fullblown Outlook 98 for mail), and have no problems. At work I use Netscape (for mail, news, and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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