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Yvonne - 24 Jun 2007 07:36 GMT

Hi,

My cat sat on my keyboard one day and somehow I lost the ability to open the
"eml" attachments within my emails. I've tried going into File Types and
amending the association of "eml" but with no luck.

At the moment, in the file type settings, I have the file extension "eml"
related to the Internet Email Message (I had it associated once to Outlook
Express but that too didn't work).

In the advanced settings, the extension is set to open with Outlook Express
with the Open Action as: "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe".

Can anyone help me?

Yvonne

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TaurArian [MS-MVP] - 24 Jun 2007 08:19 GMT

Windows® XP File Association Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
Look for: EML File Association Fix (Restores defaults for EML files)

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Robert Aldwinckle - 24 Jun 2007 18:26 GMT

> Hi,
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> Can anyone help me?

Did you copy and paste that from a dialog or just transcribe what
was visible (i.e. from the Folder Options, File Types, Editing action for type... )?
Tab into the Action used to perform action: field to see the whole command.
You may need to add a switch and a parameter to what you gave us.

Here is another way to display and capture the open action for
File Type Internet E-mail Message.

<example>
<cmd_output>
F:\>ftype | find /i "mail"
mailto="%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /mailurl:%1
Microsoft Internet Mail Message="%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /eml:%1
</cmd_output>

BTW I can't find any other way of listing that second "filetype".
There seems to be an incompatibility in the ftype's command parser
with that (long? blank-filled?) name.
</example>

In any case you should be able to get OE to reinitialize its registry values by:
1. closing all OE windows (and verifying with Task Manager or tasklist
that msimn.exe has stopped running. It sometimes takes a while for it
to go away completely so be patient.)
2. then Run... (e.g. press Win-R and enter:)

msimn.exe /reg

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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