I have found that it sometimes works if you select all items in the in-box and delete them. They'll end up in the Deleted folder so you can try a look in there later if you want.
It may be that it's one particularly long email/attachment that's blocking up things like this and so it can sometimes help to call your ISP for help in resetting mail and perhaps deleting anything very large that keeps coming your way.-
I did wonder whether you're getting mail with Immap servers rather than using POP3 and SMTP respectively. I had lots of problems with OE when I tried to do this and gave it up.
In closing, I would confirm that, although it's not recommended to delete your in-box, I've done it before and it's solved the problem and it's been re-made by the system the next time I've gone in, if I remember correctly.
Just find your .DBX folders and move the in-box.dbx somewhere safe if you want to try it but are not quite sure you want to go that route with no backing out available! ...
I hope some of these suggestions help. -- Carol carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Twitter: http://twitter.com/songbird49a --- Original Message ---- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:09 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: outlook express still giving me trouble
Hi I haven't followed this thread fully so don't know if my comments are entirely useful ... Maybe they will be to someone one day searching the internet. ;) I've had issues with outlook express where I've had to go into the C drive, find the folders where my mailbox is kept, and delete the inbox file. In case you're not aware, the inbox is just one file. All your other mailboxes such as Sent and any that you have setup are all single files too. The downside is that you lose all your email this way. The next time you launch Outlook Express, however, it creates a brand new empty inbox file which means you can start again from scratch and, contrary to initial fears, it wil work splendidly from that point onwards. If you want to be able to see all your old email, there are some editors available that I've used with some degree of success. You need one that is able to render at least some of the outlook code so that it's human readable. And the text editor needs a search function so you can find those half remembered emails and email addresses that you know to be important. Then That'll be a couple of hours of manual fine tuning. But you can always keep the corrupt inbox file for later reference and dive into it again if you later find there is some data from an old email that you need. It's no fun but Outlook Express has played this trick on me before. Note that Windows Mail in Vista did a similar nosedive with me but I wasn't able to fix it at all seemingly. I think they'd engineered it all slightly differently. ...Damon -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 19 January 2010 17:57 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: outlook express still giving me trouble Shea, Try all of these steps, even if you've tried them before and let us know http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/oerepair.mspx Barry -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shea Anker Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:45 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: eyeliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] outlook express still giving me trouble Hi, Sorry to come at you all with this again, but I am still having major issues with Outlook Express. Thought I had solved the major ones, but alas no. Last night it kept freezing, but now it won't let me delete messages again. I have tried going into tools, options, and clean up. I choose compact, and then reset. It keeps telling me that this will delete all cashed messages and headers, and that the headers will get re-downloaded. I keep pressing the yes button, and the same warnings keep coming up. I am sure that it is doing absolutely nothing. I have tried rebooting, and that hasn't worked either. I even tried last week, going into Control panel and trying to repair Outlook Express but couldn't find the option to perform a repair. I'm using Windows XP home, 2003 with Jaws 10. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks. 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