"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message
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(continuing Robear's cross-post to reply to OP's question)
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> [Crosspost to OE General newsgroup]
>
> OE Tools | Options | Read | Get XXX headers at a time
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> sandyj wrote:
>> Sorry,
>> I forgot to say I have windowsXPpro and Outlook Express 6 in case that
>> information is needed.
>>
>> I hope this is the right group to ask this question:
>> Sometimes all newsgroup messages are not downloaded, sometimes I
>> accidentally delete one by mistake. Before I installed IE8 if that
>> happened
>> I could set that newsgroup to 'default account' then click on one of the
>> reply links ( if the original message was not deleted from the reply) and
>> that missing message would be downloaded to me. I've checked all the
>> settings in Outlook Express and in Internet Explorer 8 but no option
>> seems
>> to be related to that problem.
>> Since I installed the updated browser I can not do that any longer. Is
>> it a
>> setting I have to change in IE8? I hate having to reset a group for one
>> message but sometimes they have information I need.
Actually I noticed this in IE7 and XP more than in IE8 and W7. The problem
is that the news: link you are clicking on is not recognized as a URL.
In order to use it right-click, Copy Shortcut and paste it into your Run...
dialog (so, for example, Win-R Ctrl-v). So, that would be making
explorer.exe do the work of using the news protocol filetype. IE
wouldn't in XP, not even from the Address bar. In W7 I now get some kind
of prompt with Always ask... checked. I suppose I could uncheck that to
avoid subsequent prompts but I don't use news: links that often any more
(relying instead on MS Communities or Google Groups searches).
If you can't even open the news: link from the Run... box open a cmd
window (aka Command Prompt) and enter in the command line:
ftype news
Hmm... That's my recollection of how XP works. W7 seems to be doing
things differently...
<cmd_output OS="W7">
C
>ftype news
File type 'news' not found or no open command associated with it.
C
>ftype | find /i "news"
Microsoft Internet News Message WLMail="C
Program Files (x86)\Windows
Live\Mail
\wlmail.exe" /nws:%1
WLMail.Url.news=C
Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Mail\wlmail.exe
/newsurl:"%1
"
WLMail.Url.nntp=C
Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Mail\wlmail.exe
/newsurl:"%1
"
WLMail.Url.snews=C
Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Mail\wlmail.exe
/newsurl:"%
1"
</cmd_output>
I guess that may be why I'm getting the prompt. WLMail's filetype is being
found instead and IE is asking if that's Ok to use. Who knew?
Thanks for making me find this. ; )
Robert Aldwinckle
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HI Robert,
You can also get the email by copying the URL that isn't recognized,
deleting the dots that are appended to the end and then pasting it into
Internet Explorer. (note: the newsgroup has to be set to defaut account for
it to work)
That's not a very satisfactory way to retrieve missed or accidentally
deleted messages but it's better than resetting the group. I was just
hoping there was some setting that I missed that would allow the right click
function as I used it when I had all the previous incarnations of IE from
5.5 to 7..
Sandy