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[Lavert]

Is there a way to set Outlook (not Outlook Express) to be a news reader?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No.

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[Anando [MVP]]

With some third-party plugins (as mentioned below), yes. Otherwise, natively, Outlook cannot connect
to NNTP servers.

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/nntp/

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Folder customizations
http://www.anando.org/folder

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Is there a way to set Outlook (not Outlook Express) to be a news reader?

Outlook doesn't do newsgroups, so no.

 

[Lavert]

Carey - Anando - Tom

Thanks all of you for your reply. I thought that was true, but was not
sure.


Lavert Bryant
Powder Springs Ga 30127

 

[Plato]

Is there a way to set Outlook (not Outlook Express) to be a news reader?

My favourite news reader is NS 3. Simple.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Is there a way to set Outlook (not Outlook Express) to be a news reader?

You can get Outlook to act like it's a newsreader, but it really uses OE to
do it. Question is best asked in an Outlook newsgroup.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.General
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_AddIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_VBA
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.ThirdPartyUtil
On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

 

[Alias]

Is there a way to set Outlook (not Outlook Express) to be a news reader?

Yes, add the news server and Outlook will use OE to do it. That said, I
prefer Thunderbird for newsgroups over Outlook or Outlook Express.

Alias

 

[Alias]

No.

False. Outlook can be used for newsgroups and it uses OE to do it. Some
MVP you are.

Alias

 

[Tom Porterfield]

False. Outlook can be used for newsgroups and it uses OE to do it. Some
MVP you are.

You just contradicted yourself. First you say Outlook can be used for
newsgroups and then turn around and say that Outlook can't do newsgroups and
therefore has to use Outlook Express to do it. If you only have Outlook
installed on a machine, no Outlook Express or OE has been permanently
disabled, then Outlook by itself cannot do newsgroups. There are plugins
available for Outlook where the plugin will display the newsgroup threads
within Outlook, and if OE is present and enabled then OE can be launched
with a /outnews command line switch which will make it report itself as
Microsoft Outlook Newsreader, but it is still not Outlook doing newsgroups.

 

[Alias]

You just contradicted yourself. First you say Outlook can be used for
newsgroups and then turn around and say that Outlook can't do newsgroups
and therefore has to use Outlook Express to do it. If you only have
Outlook installed on a machine, no Outlook Express or OE has been
permanently disabled, then Outlook by itself cannot do newsgroups.
There are plugins available for Outlook where the plugin will display
the newsgroup threads within Outlook, and if OE is present and enabled
then OE can be launched with a /outnews command line switch which will
make it report itself as Microsoft Outlook Newsreader, but it is still
not Outlook doing newsgroups.

Yawn. You can use Outlook for newsgroups. How it does it is just
splitting hairs on your part.

Alias

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Yawn. You can use Outlook for newsgroups. How it does it is just
splitting hairs on your part.

Yes, of course. And Windows XP can be used for coding and compiling robust
applications. Let's not concern ourselves with the fact that you would have
to have additional programs besides what comes in the box, that would be
splitting hairs.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Outlook uses Microsoft Outlook Express as a newsreader.
See the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287684

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Outlook uses Microsoft Outlook Express as a newsreader.
See the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287684

That's what Alias said.