getting in on the news

I subscribed to this newsgroup but when I try to write
message and send, I get "No sender was specified. Please
check your News Account configuration. What does this
mean? I have to go back to the web site to send, I can't
do it from OE

Barb wrote:
I subscribed to this newsgroup but when I try to write
message and send, I get "No sender was specified. Please
check your News Account configuration. What does this
mean? I have to go back to the web site to send, I can't
do it from OE

Hi,

First the obvious, did you set up a name and address? It is strongly
recommended that you do not use your real email address, either make up
a totally fictitious one or muck up your current one so it can not be
harvested by bots. Many just insert NOSPAM or something similar
somewhere in their address. If you make one up, be certain that it
couldn't possibly be some other person's address.

Next, sadly, OE has to be the default e-mail client to function properly
as a newsreader.

MM

As MM mentioned, you need to setup the sender information (again, as MM
mentioned, DO NOT use your real e-mail address will do)

This can be done by going to

Tools Accounts News

Select the Microsoft entry and click "Properties"

On the General tab, enter a name/nickname, and an e-mail address... click
Apply OK Close

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!


"Barb" wrote in message
...
I subscribed to this newsgroup but when I try to write
message and send, I get "No sender was specified. Please
check your News Account configuration. What does this
mean? I have to go back to the web site to send, I can't
do it from OE

OE has to be set as default news client to work properly (in IE Settings,
Connections tab, or in OE Options, General tab), but I've never heard of it
having to be the default email client--in fact Outlook users have OL as email
client and OE as news client.

Am I missing something?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Mostly Me (MM)" wrote in message
...
Next, sadly, OE has to be the default e-mail client to function properly
as a newsreader.

MM

Gary S. Terhune wrote:
OE has to be set as default news client to work properly (in IE Settings,
Connections tab, or in OE Options, General tab), but I've never heard of it
having to be the default email client--in fact Outlook users have OL as email
client and OE as news client.

Am I missing something?


Hi,

Well, the only time I tried OE as a newsreader with a different default
mail client-Eudora-, it didn't work so well. Oh, it downloaded messages
just fine, but when I tried to send a message it opened Eudora instead.
The only way I could get it to stop doing that was to make OE the
default email client. I don't recall if OE was the designated
newsreader, I hadn't fiddled with that so I would assume it was set at
whatever it is on a "fresh install", I'm just guessing that was OE. My
memory is a little hazy, but I seem to recall a grayed-out option until
OE was set as default for mail. Anyway, that was version 5 something,
and I have since uninstalled OE and moved on to something different.

MM