[My version]

1a. Move any messages that you want to keep out of Sent Items and Deleted
Items folders and into other local OE folders you've created for archiving
(saving) such messages.

1b. Move 99% of your messages in your Inbox folder to other local OE
folders, too.

2. Write down the location of your identity's store
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain).

3. Close OE.

4. In Windows Explorer, navigate to your store folder, find & delete the
files Outbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, and Deleted Items.dbx.

To avoid such problems in the future, adhere to the following 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.

- Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to
close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting
is taking place.

- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection:

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Garry Douglas wrote:
I've used OE to send and receive mail on my POP3 account(s) for
approximately 10 years.

Most times it works fine but occasionally, after having already
successfully sent and received mail, new outgoing messages will just sit
in
the Out Box and will not leave until I reboot the machine.

In these circumstances, when I re-boot an Outlook Express message box pops
up that says "Do you want to abort the current download? Y/N"

However, I'm not downloading anything. I have Windows Automatic Update set
to prompt me before installing anything and AFAIK the only other app that
downloads stuff silently is my AV/firewall s/w (NIS2005) which downloads
virus definitions on a regular basis.

Can anyone offer a cause and hopefully a solution for this problem?

Thanks

Garry

XP Pro SP2
IE6.00.2900
OE6.00.2900