Do you have any mail accounts runnining in OE other than your Hotmail
account?

Move anything you want to keep out of Sent Items and into a new local folder
created for this purpose Close OE Find and delete both Outbox.dbx and
Sent Items.dbx in your identity's store
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain).

If still no joy, Your current Identity may be damaged, especially if its the
default Main Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named
Identity (File Identities Add new identity). Assuming all is well,
import messages from the old Identity before deleting it (File Identities
Manage Identities).

To avoid such corruption in futu

- 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 [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

- Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if
Automatic Compacting is taking place (WinXP SP2 only).

- 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, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


Precious_Stone wrote:
I turned off e-mail scanning in my anti-virus program, deleted Outbox.dbx,
checked the configuration in OE and still the messages don't go out.
There are no repeated identities [in fact, there is no other identity].
This is frustrating.

I have to go to hotmail.com in order to send messages, and I can't even
attach pictures by using the right-click option "Send to" - "Mail
recipient". It opens the hotmail new message window but it doesn't attach
anything [I have the beta version which doesn't have the "Attach
Pictures" option].

Thanks in advance.