News Reader in Outlook 2002 (XP)

[PaulSpo]

I have Outlook XP (2002 SP3) running on XP-OS. When I open News
(View>GoTo>News), Outlook Express launches. Can I setup Outlook XP to run
News or is Express required for this?

 

[Vanguard]

I have Outlook XP (2002 SP3) running on XP-OS. When I open News
(View>GoTo>News), Outlook Express launches. Can I setup Outlook XP
to run
News or is Express required for this?

Outlook doesn't support NNTP (network news transport protocol).
That's why it has to call another program (Outlook Express) to handle
NNTP. Since Outlook will end up loading Outlook Express to do
newsgroups, just open Open Express in the first place rather than
waste the time going through Outlook.

You can get the NewsHound plug-in for Outlook to have newsgroups
supported within Outlook (because the plug-in is providing the NNTP
support), but NewsHound is not free. It costs $30 USD. I've never
used it since there are way too many free alternatives and I have no
desire to wait until Outlook finally loads before I can starting doing
newsgroups.

 

[PaulSpo]

Thanks-Appreciate the info.

| | >I have Outlook XP (2002 SP3) running on XP-OS. When I open News
| > (View>GoTo>News), Outlook Express launches. Can I setup Outlook XP
| > to run
| > News or is Express required for this?
|
|
| Outlook doesn't support NNTP (network news transport protocol).
| That's why it has to call another program (Outlook Express) to handle
| NNTP. Since Outlook will end up loading Outlook Express to do
| newsgroups, just open Open Express in the first place rather than
| waste the time going through Outlook.
|
| You can get the NewsHound plug-in for Outlook to have newsgroups
| supported within Outlook (because the plug-in is providing the NNTP
| support), but NewsHound is not free. It costs $30 USD. I've never
| used it since there are way too many free alternatives and I have no
| desire to wait until Outlook finally loads before I can starting doing
| newsgroups.
|

 

[guzzi]

What are those free?
I'm looking for something..

TIA

Vanguard wrote / napísal(a):

 

[Brian Tillman]

What are those free?
I'm looking for something..

I don't know of any free NNTP add-ins for Outlook. Most of us use one of
the many free NNTP clients.