Installed Agent wants to install itself when I click on a name.eml file
Bob O'Dyne
mainly for newsgroups but also to receive and occasionally reply to
email. It is installed in a WinV laptop on which there is no other
email etc program.
Just a moment ago I double-clicked on a file I'd received from a
client that had the ".eml" extension. When I did, another instance of
Agent started up (the main instance was downloading binaries from a
newsgroup at the time) and wanted to go through the 30-day trial/enter
license key routine. I aborted the new operation.
What's going on here? Why does Agent think it has to be reinstalled
and relicensed?
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Bob
Ralph Fox
Bob O'Dyne <b...@anodyne.nul.which.is.quite.invalid> wrote:
> I'm a licensed user of Agent (6.00 at last count). I use the program
> mainly for newsgroups but also to receive and occasionally reply to
> email. It is installed in a WinV laptop on which there is no other
> email etc program.
>
> Just a moment ago I double-clicked on a file I'd received from a
> client that had the ".eml" extension. When I did, another instance of
> Agent started up (the main instance was downloading binaries from a
> newsgroup at the time) and wanted to go through the 30-day trial/enter
> license key routine. I aborted the new operation.
Apparently your version of Windows is configured to open .eml files in Agent.
This is wrong.
Agent (unfortunately) does not know what to do with .eml files.
You will need to change this.
Depending on your version of Windows
1. Go to Control Panel � Folder Options � File Types
2. select the .eml file type,
3. change the "Opens with" either to Outlook Express,
or to Thunderbird (if you have Thunderbird 2.0 or later).
> What's going on here? Why does Agent think it has to be reinstalled
> and relicensed?
A. There is good information about this in Fort�'s Agent Newsreader FAQ.
at http://www.forteinc.com/agent/faq.php.
See the FAQ entry
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/faq.php#B884D7EAF249B8B488256C1E005A25BD
B. In this case I suspect launching the .eml attachment is doing this
1. Agent saves the .eml attachment as a temporary file and tells
Windows to launch it in the associated application.
2. Windows, following its file types settings, launches a second
copy of Agent to read the .eml file.
3. The second copy of Agent handles the .eml file as if it were
another AGENT.INI file in a different database location.
Of course the .eml file won't have any of your AGENT.INI settings
like your registration, so the second copy of Agent goes through
the 30-day trial/enter license key routine.
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Regards
Ralph