New Groups in Outlook - where are they?

[Don S.]

I just installed Office 2007 with Outlook. I then migrated my email via
Outlook Connector 12.1 from Outlook Express to Outlook.

Migration has taken a long time, but for the most part it works. The many
features are overwhelming.


What happened to News Groups in Outlook?

In OE I have a listing of MSNews groups, including this group.

I created a News item, following the instructions, but now when I
click on the News, it opens OE and shows the News Groups as I had it in OE.
How
can I bring the News Groups to Outlook, and not to have OE resident on my
PC?

Thanks

Don S

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook does not have NNTP support. You need to use OE/Mail/Live mail for
newsgroups. There are addins you can use - see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/nntp.asp

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[VanguardLH]

I just installed Office 2007 with Outlook. I then migrated my email
via Outlook Connector 12.1 from Outlook Express to Outlook. Migration
has taken a long time, but for the most part it works. The many
features are overwhelming.

What happened to News Groups in Outlook? In OE I have a listing of
MSNews groups, including this group.

I created a News item, following the instructions, but now when I
click on the News, it opens OE and shows the News Groups as I had it
in OE. How can I bring the News Groups to Outlook, and not to have OE
resident on my PC?

Nothing happened to newsgroups in Outlook. They were never supported
in Outlook.

Outlook has not and probably never will support NNTP (Network News
Transfer Protocol) used to access newsgroups. Corporations really
aren't interested in their employees wasting time in newsgroups, even
if some of those employees profess only to use newsgroups to help with
their work tasks. Sales of single licenses is of little concern to
Microsoft. They're interested in the big-dollar corporate contracts
for lots of licenses. Newsgroups is NOT considered a work function of
employees so corporations are not asking for support of newsgroups in
Outlook.

Outlook was designed to be a corporate e-mail solution, not a personal
e-mail client. So the goals of Outlook are different than for an
e-mail client you use at home. While Outlook has its News menu entry
somewhere, that results in calling whatever is the currently configured
default NNTP client (which is often Outlook Express for pre-Vista or
Windows Mail on Vista, an nothing in Windows 7 which doesn't include
any e-mail or NNTP clients).

You'll have to install a newsreader (or use OE or Windows Mail) if you
want access to Usenet using a local client. There are add-ons for
Outlook, like Newshound (not free), that add some NNTP support to
Outlook (the add-on does the NNTP functions).