[Rhodes22-list] ss picture e-mailing hang up continued

[John Lock]

At 10:38 PM 2/23/2008 -0800, you wrote:

>i'd really like to know the answer to that one. the default email 
>program on my computer is outlook express. i use yahoo. i always 
>have to punch the email link, which then opens an outlook express 
>box, copy or cut the address out of the box, and paste it into the 
>yahoo mail compose box. the dropdown menu selection box in control 
>panel doesn't have yahoo as a choice, nor a blank box where i can 
>type it in. is it possible to get around this, do you know? thanks. john b

The problem is that Yahoo is not e-mail software that you install on 
your computer.  It is web-based e-mail, which means that you do all 
your e-mailing via your web browser, not an e-mail program on your 
computer.  The Windows default e-mail setting expects to be pointed 
at some program installed on your computer.  And Windows cannot give 
you a way to point the default e-mail program at a website (like Yahoo).

This causes a great deal of confusion for people who use web-based 
e-mail, because they expect Yahoo (or whatever) to come up when you 
click the various "Send as e-mail" links in Windows.  But that's just 
not going to happen.  You'll usually just end up launching Outlook 
and it probably hasn't been set up with your e-mail server 
settings.  It's a downward spiral from there...

Unfortunately, if you're going to depend on web-based e-mail you're 
going to have to accept some limitations in the way your OS handles 
e-mail.  Macs have the same issue.  It's not a short-coming of the 
OS, it's really a result of co-opting the web to handle e-mail.

Cheers!

John Lock
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