Mail being misrouted (XP)

Gene

Posting by Bob Lucas in the microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
newsgroup this morning ( about 8 hours ago)

"Now for the bad news.

I assume your installation of Outlook was included in the Microsoft
Office Suite of programs (typically, Office 2003 or 2007).

Provided you are using the recommended security settings on your
computer, the Microsoft Update utility delivers and installs security
updates at regular intervals. Security updates for Outlook 2003 / 2007
usually include a monthly update to the Outlook Junk Mail Filter. Some
"genius" at Microsoft has decided that updates to Outlook automatically
change the default mail client to Outlook. Consequently, the problem
will recur at regular intervals.

There is no easy remedy. You could change the security settings, to
prompt before installing updates. If you don't use Outlook, you could
uninstall the program.

Probably, the easiest solution would be to check your default account
settings at regular intervals - and if necessary, re-set the default
mail client to Outlook Express."


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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gene.RemoveThis@none.net wrote:
> gene.RemoveThis@none.net wrote:
>
>> Malke <malke.RemoveThis@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> gene.RemoveThis@none.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> In XP/SP3, all of a sudden last night and this morning email to my
>>>> main account is being routed to Outlook instead of to my default
>>>> email client Sylpheed (it's also bypassing Mailwasher, which is
>>>> set to receive mail first for this account). The Outlook symbol is
>>>> in the notification tray and email is there. Also, I can send
>>>> email successfully to the Mailwasher/Sylpheed account from Yahoo
>>>> mail, but all attempts to forward the email that's gone to Outlook
>>>> end up only being received in Outlook, and not seen by MW/Sylpheed.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't change any settings and can't find any email settings
>>>> that have changed in XP, Mailwasher or Sylpheed. In years of
>>>> computing using non-MS mail programs, I've never seen this. Any
>>>> ideas what might be going on? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Gene
>>>
>>> This doesn't make sense. If you don't use Outlook, don't start it!
>>> Mail can't "go to" an email program that isn't running! As to what
>>> happened, probably you did some Office updates that made Outlook
>>> the default mail program. Just change it back to Sylpheed with the
>>> Set Program Access & Defaults in Control Panel.
>>
>> No, it doesn't make sense, yet at least, but unfortunately it's
>> happening the way I described. Control Panel > Internet Options >
>> Programs was the first place I checked, and the email setting was
>> (and is) still for Sylpheed, as it has been for quite some time. The
>> Sylpheed and Mailwasher settings are correct as well. I hadn't done
>> anything to start Outlook, and AutoRuns Startup Manager found no
>> metnions of Outlook. There are three for Outlook Express, which had
>> been there for years without apparent effect (setup50.exe
>> (2) and shmgrate.exe, the NT user data migration tool). I disabled
>> those and rebooted. The last Office (2007) update was weeks ago.
>> There was a Win Defender defs update yesterday, but could that have
>> caused this? Right now, all new mail for my main account, except
>> for those Yahoo test sends, is coming in through Outlook. Perhaps
>> something is corrupted, but I'm not sure where to start.
>
> P.S. I did just find an MS Outlook Custom Icon Handler (olkfstub.dll)
> in start up, but that's also not new. The basic problem is mail is
> all of a sudden not getting to Sylpheed/MW, which seem to be otherwise
> working correctly, but being directed to Outlook. The reason why is
> not apparent to me yet.
>
> Gene

Gene

Some more information.

"It's a quite straightforward matter to customise Outlook 2003 so that
installing patches doesn't change either the default mail client or
address book. See KB933450 "Outlook 2003 is incorrectly configured as
the
default mail client every time that you perform an Office installation
or
Office update that modifies Outlook"
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933450). for details. The easiest
method
being to use regedit and look for the two 02:\ strings (Method C), one
for
mail and one for the address book (there is a third for the calendar),
remove them (not the calendar entry) and then perform an Office/Outlook
repair via Add/Remove Programs. The one difficulty is where the user
has
for deleted the MSOCache folder and is then asked to insert the Office
CD
which s/he has either lost or worse, with OEM installs, never
possessed."
Source: Mike Maltby


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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gene.RemoveThis@none.net wrote:
> "Gerry" <gerry.RemoveThis@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> Gene
>>
>> Posting by Bob Lucas in the microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
>> newsgroup this morning ( about 8 hours ago)
>>
>> "Now for the bad news.
>>
>> I assume your installation of Outlook was included in the Microsoft
>> Office Suite of programs (typically, Office 2003 or 2007).
>>
>> Provided you are using the recommended security settings on your
>> computer, the Microsoft Update utility delivers and installs security
>> updates at regular intervals. Security updates for Outlook 2003 /
>> 2007 usually include a monthly update to the Outlook Junk Mail
>> Filter. Some "genius" at Microsoft has decided that updates to
>> Outlook automatically change the default mail client to Outlook.
>> Consequently, the problem will recur at regular intervals.
>>
>> There is no easy remedy. You could change the security settings, to
>> prompt before installing updates. If you don't use Outlook, you
>> could uninstall the program.
>>
>> Probably, the easiest solution would be to check your default account
>> settings at regular intervals - and if necessary, re-set the default
>> mail client to Outlook Express."
>
>
> It helps a lot! My guess is that yesterday's Defender update did
> the damage. I'll check out the Outlook newsgroup. In my case, the
> default settings didn't change. After I disabled the Outlook Express
> startup files in Autoruns and rebooted, the problem changed to some
> mail coming in the default acct and some in Outlook.
>
> Gene