"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Did you delete both the Outbox and Sent Items? And was OE closed when you
did?

OE was closed when I deleted the Outbox.

I just tried to delete it again and the sent items but when I tried to find
them, neither one exists as in 'cannot be found'. I tried to find them with
OE closed and open and offline. WTF?

If you're sure it was done correctly, then try a new identity.

You may have a damaged identity especially if it is the default Main
Identity. File | Identity | Add New Identity. Create a new one and test it.
If all is well, you can import your messages and Address Book from the old
identity and delete it.

I created a new identity. It wanted to know what the in and out servers
were. So I had to close out and find out what they were. Then I started over
again. Successfully did it. Then I tried to forward the welcome to OE email
and that failed because of the
port numbers. 25 and 110 are no longer valid. I had to switch back to my
other name and read the ports. 465 and 995 and both require a check mark. So
I went back to my new identity and went to properties and changed the ports.
Went to forward the email again to myself and I get an error message that my
email address, is not a valid email address! WTF, that
IS my email address.
I have about had it with this crap......




How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"aufever" wrote in message
...


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Oh. So you did start your own thread as well as latching on to the other.

I thought I should after hijacking the other one

Do the following for the Outbox, and if the problem persists, repeat for
Sent Items after you move any messages you wish to save to a local folder
you create.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write
the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must
enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder
Options
Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in question {Outbox.dbx}
and delete it. A new one will be created automatically when you open OE.

Tried it all..... problem still comes up

General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your
mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

I do this.
I empty the deleted folder every time I read mail.


After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until
the compacting is completed.

Did this also..... problem still there.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant
layer
of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such
as
time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will
continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

I shut off AVG email scanner. Problem still there.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

Did this..... problem still there.

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"aufever" wrote in message
...
I have a send email problem that gives me a pop box that says there is
an
error and read it below, but the box is empty. NO text.

I send an email, I click on send/receive to watch the progress, when
the
green bar reaches the end I get an error message. Then it tries to send
the
message again, again an error message, but NO text to tell me what the
error
is. I found out about this when a friend said he received 23 emails in
a
row,
all the same. So I tried forwarding one to myself. Same thing, sends,
ends,
says I have an error that is not there, starts to send again etc.
Meanwhile I
GET the email that it says it could not send. Then I get it again. So I
go
to
the outbox, highlight the email and delete it. thus stops OE from
resending
it. Then I go to my sentbox and the messages I just got are NOT in my
sentbox! Any ideas? This just started happening 2 days ago. I have run
all
different spyware programs with no change. AVG says I have no virus. I
just
tried system restore back to 9/20/07 but that did not help.