OE6 re-sends, and re-sends, and re-sends
Most likely a corrupted Outbox. I assume since it's been sending over
and over, you don't have to worry about saving any thing. Do this:
Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store folder will reveal the location
of your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the
folder location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start>Run>Ctrl+V will
put the location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files.
Otherwise, write the location down and navigate to it in Windows
Explorer.
In WindowsXP, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start>Control Panel>Folder
Options>View.
With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in
question {Outbox.dbx} and delete it. A new one will be created
automatically when you open OE.
Do not archive mail on default OE folders. They will eventually
become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing
mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder
regularly.
After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually
while working *offline* and do it often.
File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar).
File>Folder>Compact all folders.
In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and leave it unchecked.
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~
Quote:
> I have got this problem too: OE6 places outgoing messages
> in the outbox, sends them, but thinks it hasn't sent them
> and gives me an error message without giving any helpful
> or (to me) comprehensible information, and thenm locks
> itself up: nothing in, nothing out. To get OE to function
> again, I have to re-start it - at which points it sends
> all the messages in the outbox again, and then tells me
> gaian that it hasn't been able to send them; and so it
> goes on. It won't let me delete anything in the outbox, or
> move it to another folder, or drag it into the desktop
> wastebin. PC-cillin assures me that the computer is virus
> free. Any ideas, anyone?
