Re: Deleting email messages in Outlook

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GT wrote:

Thank you for your help. It was as simple as clearing out a bunch of deleted
messages (about 2 year's worth) from my deleted items box.

Did you follow by compacting your message store (.pst file)? Deleting
messages does not physically remove them from the file, and perhaps your
file was getting to large (close to the 1.87GB limit).
.

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