OE questions

[fvdasvsd]

Ok, I have two questions:

1. With Thunderbird I can use this with a hotkey manager to compose a
new message with Tbird "D:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird
\thunderbird.exe -compose" -- how can I do the same for Outlook
Express and Outlook 2003?

2. When I go to load Outlook Express I get this error message,
followed by the error message below it: http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x296/gwar_1/Untitled-3.png
how can I fix this and use Outlook Express?

Thanks!

 

[Peter Foldes]

posted to the outlookexpress newsgroup via crosspost

 

[F. H. Muffman]

1. With Thunderbird I can use this with a hotkey manager to compose a
new message with Tbird "D:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird
\thunderbird.exe -compose" -- how can I do the same for Outlook
Express and Outlook 2003?

For outlook, the command line option is: /c ipm.note

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010031101033.aspx for all
command line options for 2k3.

2. When I go to load Outlook Express I get this error message,
followed by the error message below it:
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x296/gwar_1/Untitled-3.png
how can I fix this and use Outlook Express?

For the pure OE parts of the post: microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Lets forget about the hotkey problem for now. If OE won't open, that's a
moot point.

Start here.

When OE crashes or won't start:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash

 

[Brian Tillman]

1. With Thunderbird I can use this with a hotkey manager to compose a
new message with Tbird "D:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird
\thunderbird.exe -compose" -- how can I do the same for Outlook
Express and Outlook 2003?

For Outlook, create a shortcut whose target is:

"%ProgramFIles%\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe" /c ipm.note

Mind the quotes and spaces. They're needed.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

(bottom post reply to OP's first question.)
posted to the outlookexpress newsgroup via crosspost

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Ok, I have two questions:

1. With Thunderbird I can use this with a hotkey manager to compose a
new message with Tbird "D:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird
\thunderbird.exe -compose" -- how can I do the same for Outlook
Express and Outlook 2003?

Is OE the default for mail? If so, create a shortcut which contains: mailto:
(with the colon.)

If not you could also create a Desktop shortcut (e.g. *.lnk file) which does
the equivalent of that when OE is the default, e.g. based on:

<cmd_output>
F:\>ftype | find /i "mailto"
mailto="%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /mailurl:%1
</cmd_output>


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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