importing from outlook2000: "default email client"

[Karl]

Hi! When I try to import my contact information from
Outlook2000 into Access2000, I get the message, "Either
there is no default email client or the current email
client cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run
Microsoft Outlook and set it as the default mail client."

I don't know how to set Outlook as the default mail client,
nor does the Help know, nor does, apparently, the Knowledge
Base. I did find a registry value for "default email
client" (as well as one that contains that entire error
message) and I set it to "Outlook" and then to
"Outlook2000", but neither did the trick. I don't want to
screw with it more without knowledge.

So any ideas? I would appreciate direct email to me at
karlchwe at apdc . org (spaces taken out, "at" replaced
with @, in case it helps.)

TIA,

Karl

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Karl,

I don't have a machine here with Outlook 2000 installed, but in Outlook
2002 you just type "default mail client" in the Answer Wizard and it
finds "Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and
Calendar". The setting is really well hidden too: Tools|Options|Other.

If this doesn't apply to Outlook 2000, there's an alternative approach
at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=196257, with the utterly misleading
title "OL2000: How to Change Your Default E-mail Client"

Hi! When I try to import my contact information from
Outlook2000 into Access2000, I get the message, "Either
there is no default email client or the current email
client cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run
Microsoft Outlook and set it as the default mail client."

I don't know how to set Outlook as the default mail client,
nor does the Help know, nor does, apparently, the Knowledge
Base. I did find a registry value for "default email
client" (as well as one that contains that entire error
message) and I set it to "Outlook" and then to
"Outlook2000", but neither did the trick. I don't want to
screw with it more without knowledge.

So any ideas? I would appreciate direct email to me at
karlchwe at apdc . org (spaces taken out, "at" replaced
with @, in case it helps.)

TIA,

Karl

John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]

Please respond in the newgroup and not by email.

 

[Karl]

Thanks John! Your idea re Outlook 2002 didn't apply, but that article
did. I wonder why it didn't come up when I searched for it? Perhaps
because I typed "email" rather than "e-mail."

But why should it matter that Outlook be my default email client for
Access to import the data? Outlook is often targeted by (and is
vulnerable to) viruses, so I don't use it as my email client. What is
this "messaging request" mentioned by the error message, and why can't
Pegasus Mail (BTW, full featured, totally standards-compliant,
apparently immune to viruses, and free) fulfill that request?

Karl



John Nurick wrote:
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Hi Karl,

I don't have a machine here with Outlook 2000 installed, but in
Outlook
2002 you just type "default mail client" in the Answer Wizard and it
finds
"Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and Calendar".
The
setting is really well hidden too: Tools|Options|Other.

If this doesn't apply to Outlook 2000, there's an alternative approach
at
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=196257, with the utterly misleading
title
"OL2000: How to Change Your Default E-mail Client"


John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]