Receiving email

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David

I cannot get Outlook to act as the email client. All of
my email go to Outlook Express instead. I have followed
the steps for setting Outlook as the default for email.
 
You set yr defaults in Internet Options?
Without OE running, in OL you can send a test mail to yourself, and receive?
David
 
I've sent test emails to myself with only Outlook running
and I get no reply. When I open OE the emails are
sitting in the OE inbox.
 
I have mail accounts set up in both OE and OL - should I
remove the mail accounts from OE? Will that force mail to
go to OL?
 
If you open OE and the test msg is there, without you seeing it, or others,
being implicitly received, then it would tend to suggest that OE is running
in the background.
I Dont use OE, but is there an option to set it NOT to check for mail?
After having opened OE does Internet Options still show OL as default?
David
 
If its a POP account, you'll only get the mail if you
click send/recieve. My guess is that OE is getting the
mail when you start it up, before OL has a chance to grab
it.

Either remove the accounts from OE (making usre that they
are on OL), or just don't open it anymore ;)

-Dee
 
As Dee
In OL there is an option under Tools, to check for mail immediately also
every x mins
David
 
Thanks for the help so far - but no luck
I have Outlook 2003, and a broadband connection. I don't
hit send/receive for email - it's there (in OE only) when
i boot up. If I don't open OE I can't get my mail. With
OE closed (I even tried uninstalling, but prhaps
fortunately it won't unistall because OE and Outlook use
some common files) email will not go to Outlook.
Outlook doesn't have the option for checking for
mail 'immediately' - only to send immediately. Anyway
that box is checked.
In Internet Options Outlook is shown as the default, but
it still doesn't receive email.
The only thing I haven't tried is deleting the email
accounts in OE. I have been holding off because I would
like to run both OE (for my wife and son) and Outlook on
the same PC.
 
If they - son/wife - are going to use the same accounts as you use in OL
then OE will continue to receive mail on the server when they log on.
If OE is closed it cannot receive mail, so if you send a test mail to
yourself in OL, it sends OK, but even clicking send/receive btn in OL, over
several mins fails to receive the mail there must be something wrong with yr
OL setup.
David
 
Thanks for all that - I think I have a solution (except
for using both OE and OL on the same PC). I have
disabled OE unchecking all of the send/receive options.

So - OL won't overide OE by simply choosing OL as the
default email client, as described in the Microsoft
instructions. You have to prevent OE from looking for
email.
 
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