If you're still using XP, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566
If you're on Vista or later, see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-default-e-mail-program David -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 3:39 PM To: "Alex Austin" <[email protected]> Cc: "Thinkpad Users Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 IE config issue Getting closer but still not quite right. I want to point browser to PMMail POP mail client. On the machine whose HDD I lost, when I clicked a mailto tag, it would open PMMail. I can't recall how it happened and didn't document that part of the setup. On the new WXP I'm building on my T43 IE7 which came with the default OEM install offers only Windows Live (whatever that is) and Outlook Express as e-mail clients . I can find no way to point it to PMMail. OE is configured with my ATTGlobal POP mail acct OK, but the program itself is no good because I can't access the individual outgoing messages as ASCII text files after transmission, which I often have to do. Also they don't go into my PMMail archive so are lost to an archive search. So I have to get OE out of the flow somehow. Google Chrome: Can't find any way in Tools or Settings to point to the mail client. Any further thoughts most welcome Jeffrey Race --Original Message Text--- From: Alex Austin Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:17:18 -0500 In Outlook Express, make sure that the default account is your POP account. There may be a dummy Hotmail account there for ease-of-configuration sake, but you don't want it. - Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> wrote: When I click a mailto link, IE brings up Outlook Express which points to hotmail. on which I do not have an account. I'd like it to point to my POP client PMMail. It offers me only LiVe or something like that, and Outlook Express Jeffrey Race _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
