Although it doesn't scan incoming or outgoing messages from your Hotmail
address, disable it.

There's a (very slight) chance that your current Identity has been damaged,
especially if its the default Main Identity. Try sending the message to the
address using one or more of your accounts in a new Named
Identity (File Identities Add new identity). Assuming all is well, (1)
compact all folders in the old identity, (2) import messages from the old
identity into the new one (don't bother with any of the Hotmail folders),
and then (3) delete the old one (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.
--
~PA Bear

wrote:
I have an anti-virus scanner set to scan e-mail for OE, but do you mean
for Hotmail, as the last reply from PA Bear indicated that the problem
didn't lie with OE?


Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE wrote:

Do you have an anti-virus set to scan email? Turn the email scanning
off. It doesn't provide any added protection anyway.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security"

wrote in message
ups.com...
The e-mail does how in OE's sent items folder, but doesn't get to
Hotmail. I've checked the Junk Mail folder and it's not there, but I
don't see why Hotmail would have sent it there any way when it puts
the e-mail from the same account into its Inbox when it is sent from
OE as a reply!

PA Bear wrote:

Check your Hotmail account's Junk Mail folder and Junk Mail/Spam
settings.

If a copy of the message sent to is found in OE
Sent Items
(assuming you have the option enabled), the problem's not OE.

wrote:
Newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress

subject: Having trouble sending e-mail in OE but works if a reply

If I send an e-mail from one of my accounts on Outlook Express to
my Hotmail address then it doesn't get delivered (although there
is no message saying it has failed, it just doesn't show up at my
Hotmail in-box), but if I send an e-mail from Hotmail to an
e-mail address on one of my Outlook Express accounts then it is
received on OE and if I then use reply it is sent to my Hotmail
e-mail address OK.

I am wondering why this happens and if there is a simple setting
I can change to make it work.