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~BD~

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Jun 8, 2009, 6:55:30 PM6/8/09
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Bruce - Hi :)

I'm using Windows XP Home SP3 and Outlook Express 6

I'm fairly sure that at some point in the past I could click on the
message 'identifier' (shown in blue) and the full, original, message
would appear in a new OE6 window. That no longer happens - in fact,
nothing happens at all!

You know about these things. Please, can you tell me why?

(This is with reference to my recent post here "Re: Wondering")

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Dave

Peter Foldes

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Jun 9, 2009, 9:20:30 AM6/9/09
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Nobody will. I told you Dave why. You are a troll

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Robert Aldwinckle

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Jun 9, 2009, 5:35:53 PM6/9/09
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Switch to a cmd window and enter:

ftype | find /i "news="

What do you see?

Assuming you see something like this:

<example>
news="F:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /newsurl:"%1"
</example>

You could take that template, paste it into your Run... dialog,
then replace the %1 with the news: link that you are trying to use
and you would be simulating what clicking on the news link
would be doing.

What happens when you try to do that?

To give the example some specificity here's what I had to put in my
Run... dialog.

"F:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /newsurl:"news:%23vwWAfA...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl"

Note that the %23 got converted to a # the first time I pasted it
so I had to change that back manually.

BTW I think the second set of quotes are probably unnecessary
(e.g. because a news link contains no spaces) but as long as this
works with them I would leave them there.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

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Jun 9, 2009, 8:51:00 PM6/9/09
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Please don't feed the trolls...especially /this/ troll.

~BD~

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Jun 17, 2009, 12:06:43 PM6/17/09
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Anyone?

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Dave


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~BD~

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Jun 25, 2009, 5:27:49 PM6/25/09
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Hey-ho! It *is* working as expected now!

A single click brings up a window headed 'Retrieving message' and then
the requested message appears in a new window!

I wonder what I did to change matters!?! <scratches head!>
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