Hi,

Any attempt to use "Reply to sender", "Forward" or "Forward as attachment" fails in news. On e-mail, there is no problem.

If I attempt to do this from the list of messages, the command is just ignored. If I try this from an opened message, I get a box "An error occurred while replying or forwarding..." (The exact text may different as this is translated from a localized version.

The question is, what error is "an error". I whish Microsoft shoot any programmer that meabs is not required to always be more specific. ;-)

Any idea about the cause of this problem?

grtnx,
Ruud Uphoff

"Ruud Uphoff" wrote in message
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Hi,

Any attempt to use "Reply to sender", "Forward" or "Forward as attachment"
fails in news. On e-mail, there is no problem.

If I attempt to do this from the list of messages, the command is just
ignored. If I try this from an opened message, I get a box "An error
occurred while replying or forwarding..." (The exact text may different as
this is translated from a localized version.

The question is, what error is "an error". I whish Microsoft shoot any
programmer that meabs is not required to always be more specific. ;-)

Any idea about the cause of this problem?

grtnx,
Ruud Uphoff



First thing I would check is to create a new Identity in OE, set up the news
account in it, then test to see it if works. If it does, then it could be a
problem with the message stores for the newsgroup(s) on the other Identity.

Have you compacted the folders recently? Have you removed any old messages
from the newsgroups? Is this a particular newsgroup and not all newsgoups or
accounts? Are there a lot of read messages in the newsgroup?

I'm sure programmers have thought similar about users, I know tech support
people do when not enough information is given.. :-)

That can happen if OE isn't properly set as the default mail program.
Where you are having a problem is where OE wants to send an e-mail from
news component. In this case, OE doesn't directly use itself. It goes
through the Windows default mail program. When you do those things from
the mail component, OE directly uses itself.

OLEXP: "Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work with Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

Also, in Windows XP: Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Set Program
Access and Defaults, Email


--

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


"Ruud Uphoff" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Any attempt to use "Reply to sender", "Forward" or "Forward as
attachment" fails in news. On e-mail, there is no problem.

If I attempt to do this from the list of messages, the command is just
ignored. If I try this from an opened message, I get a box "An error
occurred while replying or forwarding..." (The exact text may
different as this is translated from a localized version.

The question is, what error is "an error". I whish Microsoft shoot any
programmer that meabs is not required to always be more specific. ;-)

Any idea about the cause of this problem?

grtnx,
Ruud Uphoff