What newsgroup on what newsserver?

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)


JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Running OE 6, with Win XP Pro, SP2, all updates. Assume (correctly) for
the
moment that I observe ***all*** precautionary measures you've ever heard
of
with regard to keeping data safe in OE.

Symptom: Every couple of months, I'll click on one newsgroup (never the
same
one - no pattern I can discern) and OE will crash. If I restart, and avoid
checking that newsgroup, it'll run fine. The only fix is to delete
folders.dbx, but of course, that results in my having to drag all my email
subfolders back into place.

Is this just something we have to live with?