Re: MSIMN

From: Walter (Walter_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:29:03 -0800

I checked other programs running in the background and found out my Earthlink
spam blocker wasn't working well with Norton Antivirus 2005. I uninstalled
spam blocker and everything seems to be working. Thanks for the help Jim and
Steve.

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

> What is the version number of Outlook Express as shown in the Help/About
> screen for the program? Do you have any other program running in the
> background that could be making a call to the mail program? Do you have a
> fax program installed? Is Outlook (in MS Office) also installed?
>
> Do you have your antivirus program set to scan incoming/and or outgoing
> mail? Try shutting down the antivirus program completely and see if that
> fixes the problem even though you say removing email scanning has not
> helped.
>
> Last, when you updated to SP2, was an antivirus program running in the
> background? If so, your install may be corrupted.
>
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> Please reply to newsgroup only.
>
>
> "Walter" <Walter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9ECADEA5-32B1-491A-B3D1-3520D125FF18@microsoft.com...
> > I'm not getting any notifications. I've also tried compacting all folders
> > and
> > that doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > "Jim Pickering" wrote:
> >
> >> Are you getting any notification about compacting of your message store?
> >> If
> >> so, do you allow it to complete? Try manually compacting your message
> >> store
> >> by using Outlook Express menu, File/Folder/Compact all folders and let it
> >> run to completion without doing anything else. See if that fixes your
> >> problems. It usually helps also if you click File/Work Offline first so
> >> that the compacting will not be interrupted by a poll for incoming mail
> >> messages which will cause an error in compacting.
> >> --
> >> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> >> Please reply to newsgroup only.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Walter" <Walter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:A186EA2E-1CB9-40A4-8201-FB06D3D125E1@microsoft.com...
> >> > MSIMN Is Still Running After I Quit Outlook Express and I can't open
> >> > Outlook
> >> > Express again unless I open Task Manager and end the MSIMN process.
> >> > I'm using Norton Internet Security NOT McAfee. I've tried disableing
> >> > email
> >> > virus scanning and it doesn't seem to help. I'm running Windows XP SP2.
> >> > Can
> >> > anyone help?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
>

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