Email application issues

Depending on the email application you are using, you may have to provide extra information to ChoiceMail so that it knows how to open that email application properly.

Microsoft Outlook 98, 2000, 2002/XP
If your system default email application is one of the above, you may find that each time you invoke it from ChoiceMail (or ChoiceMail invokes it automatically), you get a completely new window, and, over time, you end up with dozens of Outlook windows on your screen. The solution to this problem is to explicitly tell ChoiceMail to use Microsoft Outlook as your default email application (rather than ChoiceMail simply querying your system to find the default email application) and then adding the parameter /recycle in the parameters field. Click here for details on how to do this.

Eudora
By default, Eudora loads a file called eudora.ini which contains all settings. Some users have multiple versions of that INI file and you can include parameters to tell ChoiceMail which eudora.ini file to use. Please refer to your Eudora users guide for more details on specifying parameters.

Outlook Express
Outlook Express normally does not require any parameters. We have discovered that entering invalid parameters for Outlook Express can, depending on which version of Windows you are running, actually crash your system. Therefore, be very careful if you do decide to include parameters for Outlook Express.

Netscape and Mozilla
If you are using either of these applications for email, use the parameter –mail so that these applications will open up the “Messenger” mail system rather than the browser itself.

Other email applications
Please refer to your email application’s documentation for required parameters.

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