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Title: IE toolbar link to Read Mail quit working
Post by: maria9547 on February 12, 2006, 11:13

and when I go into Internet Options, Programs, there is nothing lised under Email - it has a drop box, but no way to type anything into it.   Help?!

Using Win2K

Title: IE toolbar link to Read Mail quit working
Post by: Simon on February 12, 2006, 16:15

It's probably just a matter of setting your default e-mail client.  If you tell us which one you use (Outlook, Outlook Express, Incredimail, etc), we'll be able to tell you how to set it as default from within the program options.

Title: IE toolbar link to Read Mail quit working
Post by: maria9547 on February 13, 2006, 08:06

I use Outlook Express.   Thanks.

Title: IE toolbar link to Read Mail quit working
Post by: Simon on February 13, 2006, 11:00

OK, in Outlook Express, go to Tools > Options and on the General tab (which is the first one that opens), you'll see at the bottom, two buttons, one to make OE the default mail handler.  Click the button, and that should do the trick.  The other button is to make it the default news handler, which you don't need to worry about, unless you access newsgroups.

Hope that helps, come back to us if you're still having problems.  :)