Re: Outlook and news

On 2/21/2026 6:49 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/2/21 10:30:38, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
>> On 2/20/2026 6:57 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> On 2026/2/20 23:0:4, Char Jackson wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:00:46 -0500, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> []
>>>>> Outlook
>>>> Outlook Express. Outlook has no Usenet capability.
>>> []
>>> Mostly correct. However, on one setup I used (at work), it did: I think
>>> it called the msimn.exe that was present. But - IIRR, it was well over a
>>> decade ago, maybe two - it presented the news component as if it was
>>> inside the Outlook hierarchy.
>>>
>> It was not msimn.exe.
>>    Msimn was prior to Outlook Express and IE4, though Outlook
>> Express(included with MSN Explorer 2.6 and with IE4 circa 1997) initial
>> release for the most part was just a renaming msinm client as Outlook
>> Express. Msimn(Internet Mail and News) was included in Win95 but not
>> later and originally could be used(as an email and news client) in
>> addition to Win95 Windows Messaging(mail only client, which was also a a
>> rename or Windows Exchange[not to be confused with Exchange Server - and
>> the reason for the rename to Windows Messaging).
>>
>> Outlook required Exchange Server(not available in commercial Win95-XP
>> o/s) for newsgroups.
>>
>> The *news* connection you may be recalling in Outlook with Outlook
>> Express was quite simple.
>>
>> Afaik, at one time an Outlook Express add-in was available but it only
>> was a call to open Outlook Express for 'news'.
> 
> We had the full Outlook - calendar, all the rest, quite useful in a work
> environment. Until some point, we also had news access - it included
> some internal newsgroups, and at least some external.
> 
>> The most common and dependable version was a 3rd party add-in called
>> MAPILab NNTP which provided a read/post news method within the main
>> Outlook application(effectively using Outlook Express code as the
>> vehicle to read/post).
>>
> That was the impression I got. I'd be surprised if the company I worked
> for (anagram of messybeast) did things like that add-on, but maybe it
> did; it obviously must have been running a newsserver, given the
> in-house 'groups, so it may have.
>>

That(your) company at that point in time really only had two options for 
news in Outlook(the Outlook connector type OE add-in or the 3rd party 
MAPIab product). While the possibility does exist that some type of 
internal application was used for company type 'newsgroups' nntp 
based(using OE or one of the earlier news or mail/news 3rd party 
clients) or even a backend server based application(that appeared to 
function like a news client - similar to how BBS or Compuserv groups 
functioned).



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