Many thanks for your reply.


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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Do you adhere to all of the followin?

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

I have a set of rules where most emails to inbox are generally deleted and
empty.

I am more lazy about the sent folder which may have a few 100 emails.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

Every few days?

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

Not sure of the distinction - but will look at this.

- 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.

It doesn't happen very often and occasionally I will do it manually.

- 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


I use AVG with the email part not installed / not enabled. I Also don't see
the need!

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Fredxx wrote:
I've compacted the news folder but on a regular basis OE hangs after the
above keypress on the current news folder. I can leave it 1/2 hour and
it'll still be there hogging CPU resources and getting nowhere. If I
close
down the application, and re-open, the selected messages have been marked
as
read and all seems to be well.

It's a new installation of WinXP SP2, with SP3 installed as well.

Any ideas?