That suggests a corrupted Outbox or Sent Items folder. You can move all
messages you wish to keep from those folder to new, user created folders,
then close Outlook Express and search for Outbox.dbx and Sent Items.dbx and
delete both of them. New and uncorrupted ones will be created when you
reopen Outlook Express. If you are running Windows 2000 or XP, the DBX
files are hidden by default and you will have to tap the Advanced button in
Search and specify that you also wish to search in Hidden Folders.
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Hi,
On one pc this is happening, there is no Antivirus installed, on
another, we uninstalled the A/V and the issue remains.
Also, the issue with the duplicate messages(the hotmail/imap response),
is that duplicate messages are actually being sent. What happens is,
when a user composes a new message, they click on the send button. At
this point it looks like nothing happens because the compose window
stays open, but in the backround the message does go to the outbox and
sent items folder. Since nothing happened with the compose window,
the user clicks send again and repeats until the compose window
actually closes. So they may hit send 2-4 times before the compose
window closes, thus 2-4 messages get sent. And they are not clicking
too fast... they could click send the first time, and wait, and the
compose window stays open idefinitely.
Any ideas?
Jim Pickering (AT) wrote:
For Hotmail or IMAP accounts, see
http://insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#dupes - quoted below:
"That can happen if your Hotmail or IMAP account is the default mail
account
and OE is configured to both open directly to the Inbox (which downloads
headers automatically) and check for new messages when starting (which
also
downloads headers automatically). To stop the duplicates, simply choose
one
option or the other, but not both. Click Tools | Options, then remove the
check mark for When starting, go directly to my 'Inbox' folder OR the
check
mark for Send and receive messages at startup. If you already have
duplicates showing, click Tools | Synchronize Account or Synchronize All.
"
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Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
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