There is a new patch that addresses the compaction problem. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

Also see point 4 on that page for message recovery techniques. Its likely
that the only thing that might help recover the messages is the extract from
disk feature of DBXpress, as the messages are probably no longer in the
files, regardless of file size.

steve

"Marie" wrote in message
...
My OE recently starting compacting all my email messages, I have nothing
left
in my inbox, outbox... How can I retrieve them? and how can I stop OE
from
compacting in the future?
Thanks