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by shadowfax

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Outlook Express alert pops up saying that OE isn't the default email. Well, It's the only email client on the machine with 1 business account set up. How do you set it to default when it is already the default and the account options indicates that 1 account is set to default?
Another nagging pain is the fact that when OE is opened you have to manually click send/recieve to get emails to download. I pretty well exhausted myself looking at the options/prefs/settings pages with no luck on both of these.

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by thechas

It is interesting that OE continues to believe it is not the default mail program.

Do you have the full version of Microsoft Office on your system?

If so, is Outlook installed?

If Outlook is installed, every time Microsoft sends an update for Outlook it will attempt to set itself up as the default mail client.

I assume that you click the button to make OE the default mail program.

If this setting does not "stick", my next best guess is an error in the registry keys for OE.

As to automatically downloading your messages, open up OE.
On the tools menu, select options.
On the general tab, look in the send / receive messages section.
Check the box that says send and receive messages at startup.

I myself set this option to off just to reduce the risk of an email virus sending itself out before I have a chance to stop it.

Chas

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