newsgroup in window vista

[ccclai]

How to set up Newsgroup account in Vista Microsoft outlook?

 

[mac]

How to set up Newsgroup account in Vista Microsoft outlook?

You can't, MS Outlook is not a news reader.

Use Windows Mail in Vista, program menu.

 

[ccclai]

You can't, MS Outlook is not a news reader.

Use Windows Mail in Vista, program menu.

Thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Outlook is an MS Office program for email and scheduling functions, it does
not support newsgroups. For those, the default program is Vista's Windows
Mail. To set up newsgroups, click tools/accounts and then click the 'add'
button. Follow the prompts. The Microsoft Communities are included by
default in Windows Mail.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[John Barnett MVP]

You can't use Outlook for Newsgroups. You will need to use Windows mail
instead. To set up newsgroups in windows mail take a look at this 'how to'
from my website:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_newsgrousp_with-windows_mail.htm

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Windows - Shell/User

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[XS11E]

You can't use Outlook for Newsgroups. You will need to use Windows
mail instead.

The OP can add a "News" link to the Outlook menu which will call
Windows Mail. The Outlook help files will tell the OP how to do that.

As a confusion factor, when Windows Mail is called from Outlook it will
be labelled "Microsoft Outlook Newsreader", don't know why they did
that?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

As a confusion factor, when Windows Mail is called from Outlook it will
be labelled "Microsoft Outlook Newsreader", don't know why they did
that?

Perhaps for the same reason they gave Outlook and Outlook Express (two
very different programs) such similar names. They thought it would
help confuse people. ;-)

More seriously, I don't know the answer, but I do know that it's a lot
easier to recognize such confusion after the fact than before it.
Hindsight is always more accurate than foresight.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

With Office Outlook 2003 there was an option to connect to Outlook Express
newsgroups but I haven't looked for the same in Outlook 2007. My point of
view with Outlook 2003 opening Outlook Express Newsgroup application is
that, effectively, you are opening two application instead of one. Surely if
Outlook is accessing Outlook Express then you may as well open Outlook
Express ( or in Vista's case Windows Mail) rather than waste time clicking
the Outlook icon to open Outlook and then having to click a newsgroup button
in Outlook to open Outlook Express newsgroup app. Bit long winded in my
opinion; it is simply easier to open Outlook Express or Windows Mail.

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[XS11E]

With Office Outlook 2003 there was an option to connect to Outlook
Express newsgroups but I haven't looked for the same in Outlook
2007.

Didn't find it but I don't have Office 2007 installed now.

My point of view with Outlook 2003 opening Outlook Express
Newsgroup application is that, effectively, you are opening two
application instead of one.

Probably a valid point but my point was that it's confusing to users to
have Outlook rename OE or Windows Mail to Outlook News Reader or
whatever. It leads to questions from users and it would have been MUCH
simpler to leave the name either OE or Windows Mail so people will know
what they're using.

To me, it's equally easy to click on the Outlook "news" button or open
OE but then I don't use either very often.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Usually like everyone has posted Outlook does not have newsgroup capabilities natively

There is some 3rd party software programs that will let you do this. One of them being Newshound
http://www.shorelinesoftware.com/screenshots.htm

Some more here from Dianne P MVP Outlook
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/news.htm