Those settings only remove the message bodies.
The headers will remain until the message is removed from the server.
Create a message rule and manually apply the rule or manually delete the
messages.
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Ronald Sommer

"Louise" wrote in message
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Hi there,

I am having a problem with old newsgroup messages in Outlook Express 6 on
Windows XP SP2.

I have these settings in Tools Options Maintenance set;

[Ticked] Delete read message bodies in newsgroups.
[Ticked] Delete news messages 2 days after being downloaded.

The messages do not go, they hang around forever!!!

Have also tried the Windows repair thing (Start Run sfc /scannow
press ENTER.) as per MS's site and that did nothing, not even a message,
but took a good 10 minutes or so to run.

Nothing seems to have made a difference and yet everything else works
fine. Except one newsgroup (even though I have clicked 'Catch Up') still
tries to download *all* the thousands of messages every now and then!?

Can anyone help me please?

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Thanks,
Louise