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Subject: 
Re: Outlook Express problems
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:36:50 GMT
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G'Day
No real help just an observation, my original Outlook Express 98 worked
fine, then I rebuilt my NT workstation and loaded Outlook Express 2000 and
could not post, then about two weeks later I could post fine (???) no idea
why.
Also I use OutLook 2000 for EMail.
Cheers!
Oliver


Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.11bf5b16798bc3ac9899db@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, lego@poindexter.cc (Mike Poindexter) writes:
> > [...]
> > Todd, could you fix this somehow so that I may post from Outlook • Express?
> > Perhaps set my "account" to match what OE sends in the message header or
> > however it is.
> > [...]
> 
> 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:
> 
>    From: lego@poindexter.cc
> and
>    From: <"Mike Poindexter" <lego@poindexter.cc>>
> and
>    From: "ÐÇ" <lego@poindexter.cc>
> and
>    From: "Æø" <lego@poindexter.cc>
> 
> And you have (presumably) filled out your personal configuration such that
> it -should- be sending either:
> 
>    From: Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc>
> or
>    From: lego@poindexter.cc (Mike Poindexter)
> 
> (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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