First, Backup all your email. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
The click File | Work Offline followed by File | Folder | Compact All.
This is usually caused by an anti-spam program or an anti-virus set to scan
email.
Turn off email scanning in your anti-virus. It provides no added
protection. After doing so it may be necessary to reset the server names in
OE.
The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express
Published: November 18, 2004
By Tom Koch
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
Email scanning slows down Sending and Receiving, sometimes enough that OE
times out. Since some of the received messages have large (often virus)
attachments, which exasperates the problem.
Some Comcast users have found it necessary to totally uninstall Norton and
switch to the free AVG with mail scanning off. Norton invented email
scanning and here's what they say (although this is all from Norton, it
applies to all anti-viruses):
"Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses
that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions."
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...256c7500723cf0
"...your computer is protected if Auto-Protect is enabled. Auto-Protect
scans any incoming files, including email attachments, when the files are
saved to your hard drive."
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01100907323806
"NAV provides multiple layers of protection. Email scanning is just one of
those layers. Even if you are not running Email Scanning, your computer is
protected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments by NAV
Auto-Protect. Auto-Protect will scan any incoming files, including email
attachments, as they are saved to your hard drive. To make sure that
Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled
and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus
definitions."
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...= bar_sch_nam
See also
http://help.expedient.com/mailnews/n...ntivirus.shtml
So Symantec used to say this often and clearly. The newer stuff doesn't
have the statement included as it was considered an embarrassment. If you
know anyone who programs for Norton try to get them to talk about it.
--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
"up for the game" wrote in message
...
Hi
Kind of unclear as how to present this, but....
I have a couple of dozen or so OE rules, most of which I have had for
a number of years and they have worked well.
Thankfully, one of them--the first one--copies ALL email to another
folder and then the successive ones work with individual folders. So,
I have a copy of all the email, which is needed now as OE seems to
periodically either 'drop' messages from files, or decides to just go
back a few weeks and not show the recent emails. Usually a restart of
the application 'brings the recently dropped messages' back to where
they belong.
Once or twice, the messages did not return and I needed to purchase
recovery software to do so as one time it was the 'Sent' box that was
not recovered....and, since I do a lot of my business via emailed
estimates, problems were sure to happen.
I believe OE application/data is corrupt and, yes, I have backup, but
even if it is a few days old, it will be problems. As mentioned, I
have a copy of all the incoming messages, so things are not so bad.
However, I believe it is time to try to nail down the culprit and I
think a good place to start would be the rules...all of which have the
stop processing more rules entry.
I have also thought a lot about moving to Pegasus or Mozilla mail,
but, as explained in earlier posts, I am concerned about maximum
mailbox folders/sizes.
I would appreciate any ideas on any of the above topics.
Thanks In Advance
Joe
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