Finally opted for more e-mail security by going to "View" and unticking 'show
preview pane', clicked apply, and then ok.

All was well for some hours until I re-opened OE6 (don't recall if preview
had reappeared/re-opened just then, but 99% sure it didn't), yet as soon as
I clicked send-receive, I received my usual nuisance recently recurring spam
e-mail (suspected of malicious scripting, etc.) which seemed only thn to have
caused my preview window to re-open.

Weirder yet, after either assurung it was still unticked or re-"un"ticking
the preview box, etc., it preview pain closed until the darned thing did it
again and reopened, this time just after I'd entered something like this into
my IE6's URL box;
news://microsoft.public.forum./inter...look.express_6, etc.

Surprised that the preview box popped open and moreover listed some 300
articles, I didn't immediately see any means of deleting them from my
newsgroup mail box. Luckily simply closing OE6 resulted in them disappearing.

Don'tcha just love it when it happens to the other guy?

Additionally, had quite a time locating this newsgroup, having failed to
locate the 'microsoft public forum' by searching MS, MSDN and even Google for
varing forms of 'microsoft.internet explorer.outlook express_6. And the only
was I finally got here to post was by 're-applying' for my hotmail account,
which I had no idea (if indeed) it might have expired. Anyway the
confirmation e-mail's link to here is the only way I found this forum
regardless that I pulled up the 300 or so newsgroup e-mail/msg/posts in my
OE6. Go figure. On 2nd thought, don't even try, but I did have a time
getting here.

So any thoughts or known instances of the preview window refusing to stay
closed and re-opening (seemingly) all by itself? Kinda can undersand it
opening in the newsgroup scenario, but the spam' e-mail one bothers me quite
a bit.

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My best to all and happ-e-trails,

Steven