Start he http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown
your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

nick wrote:
Nearby neighbor is cursed with an older Dell running
Win98SE, using Mindspring, IE and OE6.

All over sudden -- a short time after starting OE6, they
get a nastygram: "MSIMN.EXE caused a page fault in
DIRECTDB.DLL". I have replaced both MSIMN.EXE and
DIRECTDB.DLL. Problem persists.

I'm guessing that there is a data base record problem
in the email index for OE6, but since I am a mozilla
user, I don't know what to look for.

Is there an email index file I can delete such that OE6
will regen it??

thanks 'n all

nick