Re: Unable To Delete Corrupt E-Mail

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Thanks, Frank. However, I find that the difficulty is that OE will not
download the message in question from Hotmail and I cannot delete the
message from the Hotmail inbox. I have sent a request for support from
MSN...we shall see what happens?

Harry

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"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" <franksaunders@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Harry Williams" <bitterbrush@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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An apparently corrupt e-mail arrived in my OE Inbox and I am unable to
delete it. Furthermore when I went directly to my Hotmail Inbox the
message was also there and, again, I am unable to delete it. Can someone
tell me how to delete an 'undeletable' e-mail?
Thanks

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Turn off the Preview Pane and then try to delete it.

If that doesn't work,
Don't store messages in the Inbox. It is the folder most apt to be
corrupted. As soon as you read them move them to user created folders.
Then compact the Inbox regularly.

Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down where OE
is storing its data.
Close OE.
Go there with Windows Explorer and move (not copy) Inbox.dbx to an empty
Windows
folder. With Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3 it will be a hidden file.

You can use either of these tools to extract the messages from the old DBX
file:

DBXtract ($7): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ although this tool is
faster and better:
DBXpress: ($25) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
Do NOT extract to the desktop!
With a large file this can take a long time, so let it keep running.

The messages can be dragged from a Windows folder back into an OE folder
in OE's Folder List.

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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