Newsgroups in Outlook

[Terry Bennett]

I have been using Outlook Express until very recently but have now switched
to Outlook as I find it much better for storing/sorting e-mails.

There doesn't, however, seem to be a way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook.
The 'help' section simply instructs on how to add 'news' to the 'Go' menu
and this then simply opens OE again ... then there are the messages about
whether I want to make OE my default, etc, etc.

Is there no way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook itself?

 

[Dave Mills]

I have been using Outlook Express until very recently but have now switched
to Outlook as I find it much better for storing/sorting e-mails.

There doesn't, however, seem to be a way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook.
The 'help' section simply instructs on how to add 'news' to the 'Go' menu
and this then simply opens OE again ... then there are the messages about
whether I want to make OE my default, etc, etc.

Is there no way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook itself?

Nope

 

[Vanguard]

I have been using Outlook Express until very recently but have now switched
to Outlook as I find it much better for storing/sorting e-mails.

There doesn't, however, seem to be a way of accessing newsgroups in
Outlook. The 'help' section simply instructs on how to add 'news' to the
'Go' menu and this then simply opens OE again ... then there are the
messages about whether I want to make OE my default, etc, etc.

Is there no way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook itself?

Outlook is an e-mail client. It has no NNTP (network news transfer
protocol) support. That is why Outlook calls Outlook Express (which does
support NNTP) to do newsgroups.

 

[Vanguard]

I have been using Outlook Express until very recently but have now switched
to Outlook as I find it much better for storing/sorting e-mails.

There doesn't, however, seem to be a way of accessing newsgroups in
Outlook. The 'help' section simply instructs on how to add 'news' to the
'Go' menu and this then simply opens OE again ... then there are the
messages about whether I want to make OE my default, etc, etc.

Is there no way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook itself?

By the way, you can get support for NNTP in Outlook but not by any options
within Outlook. You have to *ADD* support for NNTP by getting a plug-in,
like Newshound (http://www.shorelinesoftware.com/), which lets you do NNTP
from within Outlook rather than calling another program (Outlook Express).
Do you really feel the need to buy a $30 plug-in just because OE actually
does the NNTP stuff?

 

[Terry Bennett]

Thanks for the advice.

By the way, you can get support for NNTP in Outlook but not by any options
within Outlook. You have to *ADD* support for NNTP by getting a plug-in,
like Newshound (http://www.shorelinesoftware.com/), which lets you do NNTP
from within Outlook rather than calling another program (Outlook Express).
Do you really feel the need to buy a $30 plug-in just because OE actually
does the NNTP stuff?

 

[Tom - safercomputing.com]

I have been using Outlook Express until very recently but have now switched
to Outlook as I find it much better for storing/sorting e-mails.

There doesn't, however, seem to be a way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook.
The 'help' section simply instructs on how to add 'news' to the 'Go' menu
and this then simply opens OE again ... then there are the messages about
whether I want to make OE my default, etc, etc.

Is there no way of accessing newsgroups in Outlook itself?

I do not believe Office Outlook has a News Reader built in.