Individual Reply to Newsgroup Message Using Outlook Rather than Windows Vista Mail?

Under XP and OE if one had Outlook (2003) set as the default mail
handler, selecting "Reply" to a newsgroup message rather than
"Reply Group" would result in an e-mail reply being sent via
Outlook rather than OE. This behavior seems to have changed
under Vista and Office 2007. Although Outlook is set as the
default program for mail messages everywhere you can set it,
selecting "Reply" in a newsgroup and then "Send" after composing
the reply causes Vista Mail to pop up its configuration wizard
wanting me to set up a mail account, something I deliberately did
not do so that Vista Mail would not accidentally retrieve mail
messages.

So I have two questions:
1) If I set up a POP3 account for Vista Mail, will the response
be sent using Outlook or Vista Mail?
2) If it will still be sent via Vista Mail, is there anyway to
force it to be sent via Outlook?

I anticipate a question as to why I want it to go via Outlook
rather than Vista Mail, and the answer is so that I have my sent
mails in a single location, i.e., in Outlook's Sent folder.

Regards, Dan

"Daniel. L. Schumacher" <d.l.schumacher@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> 1) If I set up a POP3 account for Vista Mail, will the response be sent using Outlook or Vista Mail?

"Vista Mail" is actually called Windows Mail (WM).
If you click on a MailTo link on a website, it will be handled by Outlook.
If you click Reply to a news post in WM it will be handled by WM.

> 2) If it will still be sent via Vista Mail, is there anyway to force it to be sent via Outlook?

Not that I know of.
--
Gary VanderMolen

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Daniel. L. Schumacher" <d.l.schumacher@worldnet.att.net> wrote
> in message
> news:72D0CF7A-2780-4F77-8C80-53597115526F@microsoft.com...
>> 1) If I set up a POP3 account for Vista Mail, will the
>> response be sent using Outlook or Vista Mail?
>
> "Vista Mail" is actually called Windows Mail (WM).
> If you click on a MailTo link on a website, it will be handled
> by Outlook.
> If you click Reply to a news post in WM it will be handled by
> WM.
>
>> 2) If it will still be sent via Vista Mail, is there anyway to
>> force it to be sent via Outlook?
>
> Not that I know of.
> --
> Gary VanderMolen
>

Gary,

Thanks for the response. Chalk another one up to "Viva le
difference". Whatever.

Regards, Dan

"Daniel. L. Schumacher" <d.l.schumacher@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:72D0CF7A-2780-4F77-8C80-53597115526F@microsoft.com...
> Under XP and OE if one had Outlook (2003) set as the default mail handler,
> selecting "Reply" to a newsgroup message rather than "Reply Group" would
> result in an e-mail reply being sent via Outlook rather than OE. This
> behavior seems to have changed under Vista and Office 2007. Although
> Outlook is set as the default program for mail messages everywhere you can
> set it, selecting "Reply" in a newsgroup and then "Send" after composing
> the reply causes Vista Mail to pop up its configuration wizard wanting me
> to set up a mail account, something I deliberately did not do so that
> Vista Mail would not accidentally retrieve mail messages.
>
> So I have two questions:
> 1) If I set up a POP3 account for Vista Mail, will the response be sent
> using Outlook or Vista Mail?
> 2) If it will still be sent via Vista Mail, is there anyway to force it to
> be sent via Outlook?
>
> I anticipate a question as to why I want it to go via Outlook rather than
> Vista Mail, and the answer is so that I have my sent mails in a single
> location, i.e., in Outlook's Sent folder.
>
> Regards, Dan
>

Start | Default Mail
Make sure Outlook has all of its defaults.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Do not send mail.