msimn.exe - A Networking Element?

Occassionally, I use OE for mail service... but very rarely. I reformated my
disc recently and have reinstalled most programs. I just noticed when
attempting to use OE 6.0, my firewall gives me this message:

"Outlook Express from your computer wants to send UDP datagram to localhost
(location)." The program is at c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe."

The computer is on a LAN. Is it safe to make this message in such a way as
to automatically grant permission or should it always be blocked? What is
it?

msimn is the oulook express executable. It should be safe

--
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP
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www.hildrum.com
"jaygreg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Occassionally, I use OE for mail service... but very rarely. I reformated
> my
> disc recently and have reinstalled most programs. I just noticed when
> attempting to use OE 6.0, my firewall gives me this message:
>
> "Outlook Express from your computer wants to send UDP datagram to
> localhost
> (location)." The program is at c:\program files\outlook
> express\msimn.exe."
>
> The computer is on a LAN. Is it safe to make this message in such a way as
> to automatically grant permission or should it always be blocked? What is
> it?
>
>

Thanks, Jon.

"Jon_Hildrum" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> msimn is the oulook express executable. It should be safe
>
> --
> Jon Hildrum
> DTS MVP
> (E-Mail Removed)
> www.hildrum.com
> "jaygreg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Occassionally, I use OE for mail service... but very rarely. I
reformated
> > my
> > disc recently and have reinstalled most programs. I just noticed when
> > attempting to use OE 6.0, my firewall gives me this message:
> >
> > "Outlook Express from your computer wants to send UDP datagram to
> > localhost
> > (location)." The program is at c:\program files\outlook
> > express\msimn.exe."
> >
> > The computer is on a LAN. Is it safe to make this message in such a way
as
> > to automatically grant permission or should it always be blocked? What
is
> > it?
> >
> >
>
>