Re: Win98 OE6 won't send

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From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/26/04


Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:13:11 -0500

YW, Dave.

Please post your IE queries to this IE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser

--
~PA Bear
mrdave18.DELETETHIS@discussion.microsoft wrote:
> I have deleted the sent items.dbx as well as the outbox.dbx and now it
> appears that the OE is working fine. Thank you so very much for your quick
> and accurate reply. I appreciate your help to simply cure a problem that I
> felt would be huge. By the way, I do save the messages in another folder
> frequently. I also have IE6 with all the latest updates. But when I try to
> get to the favorites links I am having some trouble in that they are slow 
> in
> coming up and also sometimes when clicking on a favorite it doesn't do
> anything. Any suggestions there?
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
>
>> Close OE.  Find and delete Outbox.dbx in your identity's store
>> (http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/store.htm#storemain).
>>
>> You /may/ need to delete Sent Items.dbx as well.
>>
>> Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages.  Move them to local
>> folders created for this purpose.
>>
>> Disable Background Compacting [N/A in WinXP SP2] and frequently perform a
>> manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline".  More at
>> http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.
>>
>> Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
>> corruption.  Disable it.  It provides no additional protection.
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
>>
>> Posting and You
>> http://www.trials-shack.co.uk/posting.html
>>
>> mrdave18.DELETETHIS@discussion.microsoft wrote:
>>> When I try to send a message using OE6 (I can receive mail) an OE window
>>> pops up saying: "Some errors occurred while processing the requested
>>> tasks.
>>> Please review the list of details below for more details". The errors 
>>> tab
>>> pane is blank. The task tab reads" Task - Send one message for __;
>>> Status:Warnings; Connection:LAN" The sent item remains in the Outbox
>>> folder
>>> and never appears in the Sent Items folder. I must highlight the item in
>>> the Outbox folder and delete it manually. Then when I close and restart
>>> OE6, the message appears as if it was sent properly. But I have heard 
>>> from
>>> friends that I have written to that some of them have not received
>>> messages
>>> I sent them and a few even tell me that they have received 5-8 copies of
>>> the same message. Can anyone help me? Please! Thanks in advance for any
>>> help. I'm relatively inexperienced with doing any computer repairing and
>>> not well versed in the technical stuff. Thanks again.
>>> Mr. Dave18 


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