Peter Brown wrote:

Ah, so this is the route of my problem!! So if i install office 97 on
my windows xp computer I can still add email services?

Office 97 will work on XP just fine just as it is, except for the inclusion
of the Internet Mail Enhancement patch. Make sure you apply the latest
patches.
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Brian Tillman

Right then tomorrow I'll download these patches and then I'll be able to use
my "old" Outlook97 with XP to send/receive emails? Wish me luck and expect
more postings if it doesn't work!

Peter

"Christian Goeller" wrote in message
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Peter Brown, you wrote on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:56:55 -0000:

I always thought that to add an email service you had to add "windows
messaging" and use this. Looking at my Outlook 97 the only other
option that I have is Microsoft Mail. Is this the service that I
should be using to send/receive emails?

You have to install the "Enhancement Patch" [1] for Outlook 97. This
patch is included in SR1 for Outlook 97 [2]. After you have installed
SR1 you should also install SR2 for Outlook 97 [3].


[1]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B7D41CA1-8C78-47
12-834B-EC0537C97940&displaylang=EN

[2]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3
D702F0B-4DA8-4FB2-80E4-CCFB8D3C1D0B

[3]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=B
EFD7842-602E-42B0-89D2-6BE39F1167C1


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Best Regards
Christian Goeller

Peter Brown, you wrote on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:24:23 -0000:

Right then tomorrow I'll download these patches and then I'll be able to use
my "old" Outlook97 with XP to send/receive emails?

Quite sure... ;-)

Wish me luck

I do! But now I am tired and I will go to bed (it's already after
midnight and I have to get up early) ;-)

and expect more postings if it doesn't work!

We're prepared... :-)


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Best Regards
Christian Goeller

Peter Brown wrote:

Right then tomorrow I'll download these patches and then I'll be able
to use my "old" Outlook97 with XP to send/receive emails? Wish me
luck and expect more postings if it doesn't work!

Again, I'll caution you. Outlook 97 does not support SMTP server
authentication and many (most?) ISPs these days require that you
authenticate to the SMTP server when you send messages. For those ISPs,
Outlook 97 is not suitable for sending mail.
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Brian Tillman