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    Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Todd Lehman
    There are least two people (probably a LOT more) who are having horrible problems getting MS Outlook Express to send the right 'From' line from the data they've given...they're stumped as to how to make it work, and I don't have MS Outlook, so I'm (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Alex Wetmore
     At (URL) I've put a image of my how my account is configured. I am using build 4.72.3110.5 and might have some OE 5.0 stuff mixed in there because I was running an internal build of IE5 for a while (I work at Microsoft). I've never had problems (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Solution seems easy to me. Don't use the product. I think this is an example of a product that's not easy to use for this application. Please note: I use Netscape Communicator. I got lucky, usually after two-three head bashes I can get it to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Selçuk Göre
      Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36AE5EE1.DE84F77D@v...er.net>... (...) I'm not intending to say that OE is a good news reader (I prefer using NS, too, at least at my home) but I'm using it at job for luget w/o any difficulty. The great number (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Alex Wetmore
     Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) I agree. I've also tried using a number of other news readers and haven't had good luck with anything else. Most leave out features that I need, such as support for multiple servers, and allowing connections to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Todd Lehman
      (...) Here's a snapshot...(and wow, it's kind of surprising...!) --Todd 1 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 (hand-edited References line) 1 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.43/Emacs 20.2 1 X-Newsreader: Messenger v1.40a for RISC OS 1 X-Newsreader: (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Todd Lehman
       (...) I forgot to mention something: The list I just posted was from a simple file-level grep, so it counts cross-posted articles multiple times -- once for each appearance in an ng. As a result, some of the actual numbers may be skewed slightly. (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Mike Stanley
      (...) YEAH! There I am, the most used non-Windows news client! :) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Steve Bliss
      (...) So there's 1 person using slrn on lugnet? Steve (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Mike Stanley
      (...) Dunno. Probably not. It's still the most used non-Windows client whether 1 person or 10 people are using it, though. (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Jasper Janssen
     (...) Have you tried commercial Agent 1.5? The multiple servers not being there are still a bitch, but there's an easy workaround. if you start the exe with as starting diurectory, say, Agent_lugnet, instead of Agent, that should allow you to do a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Alex Wetmore
     Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36af95c3.23548938@l...et.com>... (...) This sort of fix isn't something I'm interested in doing. I like having one client which makes it trivial to jump between groups on different servers. It was essential when I (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Chris Moseley
      Alex Wetmore wrote (...) I did a lot of playing round and eventually reverted to OE. I suspect my requirements are much as yours, and for the same reasons. Gravity and Virtual Access were the best of the 10 or so Win32 newsreaders I tried, but the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Mike Stanley
     (...) I've never had a problem getting OE to do what I wanted it to do. I don't use it regularly for news, although I do use it exclusively to handle my customer support e-mail. It may not be ready for prime-time in the sense that it is possible for (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express —Richard Dee
   On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:33:37 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Well, I think 10 of those at least are mine. Todd was a great help in getting me sorted. It was neither Lugnet, nor OE that was the problem, it was me! I (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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