Outlook/Newsreader

[rbkpi]

I use MS Outlook; a friend, who uses Outlook Express, asked me how to set up
for newsgroups. I went to Help in Outlook, typed in "newsgroups" and selected
Start a News reader. Following the instructions, I went to Tools - Customize
- Add/Delete Buttons. i then went to to Category "Go"; clicked it, and in
Commands, scrolled down to News; left clicked it and dragged it to to "Go"
menu in my top-most toolbar. I released the mouse button by "Folder". I
exited Help, clicked on the Go menu, clicked on News, and a Wizard opened. It
asked me for a server name, and not knowing what to do, I exited the Wizard.
I tried the Go menu again, but News was no longer there. I wanted to start
over by going to Tools-Customize-Add/Remove Buttons; clicked on Go in
"Categories" and could not find News in the Command area. What happened??
Where is News?? Did I damage my Outlook??
Looking for ideas/help.
thanks,
Bob

 

[DL]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
The MS news server is; msnews.microsoft.com

You might find it easier to simply set up a shortcut to open the newreader
directly eg Target is;
"%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /outnews

 

[rbkpi]

Thank you for your reply! I will try your suggestion. However, how and where
do I setup this shortcut? Also, how do I get the "News" command back when I
click on the "GO" category and look in Commands for News? Is it important
that I have News in the Command menu?
Thanks,
rbkpi

 

[DL]

Personally allthough I use Outlook, I've never bothered with the 'news'
option, since its an external link to the outlook express newsreader.
You create the shortcut on your desktop or wherever you feel appropriate, ie
quick launch bar
(rt click empty space on desktop, from the options, new>shortcut)

 

[VanguardLH]

I use MS Outlook; a friend, who uses Outlook Express, asked me how to set up
for newsgroups. I went to Help in Outlook, typed in "newsgroups" and selected
Start a News reader. Following the instructions, I went to Tools - Customize
- Add/Delete Buttons. i then went to to Category "Go"; clicked it, and in
Commands, scrolled down to News; left clicked it and dragged it to to "Go"
menu in my top-most toolbar. I released the mouse button by "Folder". I
exited Help, clicked on the Go menu, clicked on News, and a Wizard opened. It
asked me for a server name, and not knowing what to do, I exited the Wizard.

Since you exited the wizard, your customization was aborted. Since you
aborted the customization, nothing got customized. It needs to know
what NNTP client you want to use to have Outlook load it. Outlook
doesn't do newsgroups so it has to run something else.

The common setup is to configure Outlook Express (msimn.exe) to get
loaded as the "server" to do NNTP (network news transfer protocol), but
you could have it start some other NNTP client, like Xnews, Forte Agent,
40tude Dialog, Xananews, etc. Why is the executable for Outlook Express
called msimn.exe (and not oe.exe)? Because it got acquired by Microsoft
(ms) and used to be called "Internet Mail & News" (imn).

I tried the Go menu again, but News was no longer there. I wanted to start
over by going to Tools-Customize-Add/Remove Buttons; clicked on Go in
"Categories" and could not find News in the Command area. What happened??
Where is News?? Did I damage my Outlook??

A lot of bother to startup Outlook to then have it load Outlook Express
to do newsgroups. Outlook does not support NNTP so it calls another
program, Outlook Express, that does support NNTP. So you start Outlook
to then start Outlook Express when you could've have just started
Outlook Express in the first place.

Put a shortcut to OE in the Quicklaunch toolbar in the Windows taskbar,
or in any other custom toolbar you create in the Windows taskbar. Then
just click on that shortcut to start OE. So you would end up clicking a
button in either the toolbar or wading through menus in Outlook
(obviously a single-click is easier than navigating menus) plus you
don't have to start Outlook to end up starting Outlook Express, anyway.

The only way to have Outlook itself do NNTP is by installing an add-on
to add NNTP support. Newshound is an add-on that does that but it isn't
free.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thank you for your reply! I will try your suggestion. However, how
and where do I setup this shortcut? Also, how do I get the "News"
command back when I click on the "GO" category and look in Commands
for News? Is it important that I have News in the Command menu?

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/news.htm