Re: Outlook Express outbox-sent folder issues - HELP!

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:55:39 -0400

Did you close OE before deleting Outbox.dbx? Did you try also deleting Sent
Items.dbx?

Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

Disable Background Compacting and frequently perform a manual compact of all
OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection. 

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Mark wrote:
> First time post, so apologies if i dont write this out
> following some established protocol ; )...
>
> For some reason over the last couple of days my pop3
> email accounts set up in outlook express no longer move
> the messages from outbox to the sent folder after they
> have effectively sent. I get an error message from OE,
> but the details are blank. The messages are being sent,
> and because they do not leave the outbox they are being
> sent repeatedly. Obviously one solution is just to delete
> it myself, but i keep records of the email as this is a
> company account.  This is annoying to the people im
> sending the emails, and annoying to me as I end up having
> to delete the emails and losing the record of it.
>
> I have tried deleting the outbox.dbx file but it doesn't
> help. Sent messages from my hotmail account through OE
> work fine and move from the outbox to the sent folder
> without any problem. I have not changed any settings in
> my POP3 accounts that would explain why this suddenly
> started happening.  I have also tried removing the POP3
> accounts, re-starting OE, then re-entering the POP3
> accounts, but makes no difference.
>
> I then tried installing the accounts on Outlook, and same
> problem.
>
> Any insights / suggestions / instructions?
>
> I have thousands of emails in the program that I don't
> want to lose so do not want to un-install unless I have
> exhausted any other possible solutions.

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