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 [not available 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 shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

fshelledy wrote:
Just switched to a newer laptop. Set up OE that I have used for many
years.

Clicking on Tools/Options/Send, the box for 'Save copies of sent items
in the 'Sent Items' folder' is checked. However none of my sent items
are being saved there.

Please advise how I can correct this problem. Thank you.

Frank