Outlook Answer Book, The: Useful Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Microsoft Outlook® 2003

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12.3. When I Start Outlook Express, I See a Message About It Not Being the “Default Mail Client”—What Should I Do?

Almost all mail, or e-mail, clients attempt to register themselves as your “default mail client” when you install or run them. Thankfully, the better-behaving ones ask you first.

This is important because if you have more than one e-mail client on your machine (such as Outlook and Outlook Express) and you click a mailto link on a Web page, the e-mail client application that is run is defined as the default. Because this book is specifically about using Outlook as your e-mail client and this chapter is about using Outlook Express solely for the purposes of a newsreader, we suggest unchecking the Always perform this check… ...