Set Outlook Express as Your Default Simple MAPI Client

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook Express versions 4.0, 4.01, 5 for Windows 95
Microsoft Outlook Express versions 4.0, 4.01, 5 for Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Outlook Express version 5 for Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98

SUMMARY

This article describes how to set Outlook Express as your default Simple Messaging application programming interface (MAPI) client.

MORE INFORMATION

When you send a document from within a program by clicking Send on the File menu (such as in Microsoft WordPad), or by pointing to Send To on the File menu and then clicking Mail Recipient (such as in Microsoft Word), the e-mail program that is set as your default Simple MAPI client is used to send the document.

To set Outlook Express as your default Simple MAPI client, quit all other running e-mail programs, and then follow these steps in Outlook Express:

Outlook Express 4.x and Windows 98

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

2. On the General tab, click the "Make Outlook Express my default Simple

   MAPI client" check box to select it.

3. Click Yes when you are prompted to set Outlook Express as your default

   Simple MAPI client.

   NOTE: If you use another MAPI-enabled e-mail program such as Microsoft
   Exchange, Microsoft Outlook 97, or Microsoft Windows Messaging, it
   is no longer your Simple MAPI client when you set Outlook Express
   as your default Simple MAPI client. To set your other e-mail program as
   the default Simple MAPI client, click the "Make Outlook Express my
   default Simple MAPI client" check box to clear it.

4. Click OK, and then click OK again when you are prompted to restart

   your computer.

5. Quit Outlook Express, and then restart your computer.

Outlook Express 5

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

2. On the General tab, click Make Default next to "This application is

   the default mail handler."

3. Click OK.

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Last Reviewed: April 8, 1999