Hi Mike,
That was a real eye opener, thanks very much. The only element that isn't
sorted is the 'send immediately'. That was already set. But I will wait and
see how things shake down as this was a pretty major change on my e-mail
set-up.
Thanks again,
Dave.



"Michael Santovec" wrote:

If you'd rather have the Contact Us links use Yahoo directly rather than
Outlook Express, then see:
How can I make Yahoo! Mail my default email application?
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ext/ext-09.html


If you want OE to send without having to do the manual send and receive,
then set Tools, Options, Send, Send Immediately.

Being the default mail program determines which program is used to send
a new message when another program (such as IE on a contacts us link)
wants to send an e-mail. It has no affect on receiving messages.
That's determined by running any mail program and having it receive mail
regardless of whether or not it is the default.

As to the problem of OE saving sent messages, if you have more than one
identity, it might not be using the one you think. Look at File,
Identities, Manage Identities.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"David42" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I use Yahoo for most of my e-mail activities. The exception is when
working
on the net I find that I want to contact a company.I click on the
'Contact
us' link and a small windown opens with the company's e-mail address
already
filled in which I can use to compose my message. Finish the message
and click
on 'send'.
I can see by the 'data' light on my cable modem that nothing has
happened
and, by experimenting I have discovered that I need to open 'Outlook
Express'
and click on 'Send and Receive All' before the message that I have
created is
sent.

Secondly, I am not able to save a copy of sent items in the 'sent'
folder
even though I have requested that in the options. On the Microsoft
Knowledge
Base it seems to indicate that I should make O.E. the default mail
handler.
I am a bit wary of this as I am not sure how it would affect my Yahoo
mail
account.

Any ideas folks?? I will be most grateful for any advice.
Dave.