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date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:19:04 -0800,
group: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
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Re: OE sending, but not sending (?)
This could be a corrupted Outbox folder in Outlook Express:
- Close Outlook Express.
- OE5+: Locate the file outbox.dbx in the mail directory and delete it.
You can use Start, Find (or Search), Files or Folders, outbox.dbx to
find it. On Win2000 you need enable the display of Hidden or System
files in the folder options and XP you need to use the advanced options
to find Hidden or System files. (You can also determine the location by
looking in OE at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder.)
- Open Outlook Express again. It will create a new empty Outbox.
If that doesn't help, it's likely a corrupted Sent Items folder.
- Close Outlook Express
- Rename the file Sent Items.dbx to Sentold.dbx You can use Start, Find
(or Search), Files or Folders, "Sent Items.dbx" to find it. On Win2000
you need enable the display of Hidden or System files in the folder
options and XP you need to use the advanced options to find Hidden or
System files. (You can also determine the location by looking in OE at
Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder.)
- Open Outlook Express again.
- It will create a new empty Sent Items.
- The following program may be able to recover some of the messages from
the Sentold.dbx file.
DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
With a very large DBX file, this can take hours or days.
- You can then open OE and select the Sent Items and drag the recovered
EML files back into it.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"E-Double" wrote in message
news:4F38824B-44CA-4DAB-B8E2-BA23B7059636@microsoft.com...
> when trying to send emails in OE 6 an error with a general 'Warning'
> message
> appears stating that OE was unable to send the email(s), and the
> email(s)
> remain in the Outbox. but the emails are actually being sent, and the
> recipients end-up getting multiple copies of the emails as the
> original
> sender keeps trying to send the emails. any help on this strange
> problem
> would be greatly appreciated. tia ...
date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:26:22 -0800
author: Michael Santovec
Re: OE sending, but not sending (?)
cool, i will try that. thanks guys,
e.
"Jim Pickering" wrote:
> Sounds like the dbx file for the Outbox is corrupted. Go to your message
> store folder (Tools/Options/Maintenance and Store Folder button) noting the
> path to it and close Outlook Express. Now open Windows Explorer (Winkey+E)
> and navigate to the store folder location, find and delete Outbox.dbx and
> the problem should be fixed. Post back if it is not.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "E-Double" wrote in message
> news:4F38824B-44CA-4DAB-B8E2-BA23B7059636@microsoft.com...
> > when trying to send emails in OE 6 an error with a general 'Warning'
> > message
> > appears stating that OE was unable to send the email(s), and the email(s)
> > remain in the Outbox. but the emails are actually being sent, and the
> > recipients end-up getting multiple copies of the emails as the original
> > sender keeps trying to send the emails. any help on this strange problem
> > would be greatly appreciated. tia ...
>
>
date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:39:02 -0800
author: E-Double
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