Create Outlook profile without emailaddress in Exchange 2010

Hi,

I might be missing the point here, but if you associate .eml extensions with, say, Windows Mail / Windows Live Mail / Outlook Express (whatever they are calling it this week), then you could avoid Outlook altogether, and at least one of those should be on most (all?) versions of Windows?

Thanks,

Alan.

Those options aren't available. Outlook is the only email client. We are running Windows 7 on a virtual environment VMWare VSphere.

Hi Bjorn,

Been a while - I guess Win7 had no default email client when first installed?

You could install Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird or something though, and associate .eml files with that.

You could also associate them with notepad - eml files are just txt if I recall correctly?

Alan.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your help but maybe I was unclear. A few specific users have to be able to open .eml attachments but aren't allowed to send email. Installing other software isn't an option so I hope MS Exchange offers a solution for my problem.

Bjorn

Hi Bjorn,

I guess you could setup Outlook with just a local PST file (empty).

That would allow them to open the .eml files, but not send (or receive) emails.


Alan.

You need an email account in an Outlook Profile so you need to start there.

You can set up receiving and then for sending, do not authenticate so that they cannot send. That might work.  You could set up a false address but then Outlook will not be able to do anything and likely hang up when opened.

Your requirement is very unusual. Even though you do not wish, find a different application (not email) to open attachments.

Thank you Alexei! This solves my issue. Great! :)