Re: OE locks periodically when receiving email

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From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:18:02 -0700

Do not archive mail on default OE folders. They will eventually
become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing
mail. Move all the mail out of the Inbox and Delete what you don't
want. Same with Sent Items. Empty the Deleted Items folder.

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. 

-- 
Bruce Hagen
   ~IB-CA~
"Phil" <pstock.remove@emersonvent.com> wrote in message
news:1324a01c44365$4e31a210$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Periodically throughout the day Outlook Express will hang
> when getting emails. It may hang at the 7th email or it
> may hang at the 20th. If the user goes out to the webmail
> application website and deletes the corresponding email
> after reading it then receives again, the rest will come
> down. I just converted the user from using Netscape 4.5 to
> Outlook Express 6 on XP Home. I have gone to Windows
> Update and downloaded everything that was available. Also,
> there are about 600 items in the Inbox and most of the
> inbound mail is spam. Why does the user have to go to the
> webclient and delete the suspect email before the Receive
> process will complete successfully? This happens several
> times a day. Thanks.
>
>

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