On Nov 29, 9:14 am, "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
What Ron said. Access your e-mail via your ISP's Website and delete the
offending message there.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message

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Message 18 must be corrupt.
OE will not mark the messages as downloaded until all messages are
downloaded.
The download fails, then the next connect downloads the same messages.
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Ronald Sommer

"Mike" wrote in message
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I have done this & it will be ok for several houyrs & then back to the
same old, same old!

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Is this a Pop3 account?

Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced. Uncheck: Leave a copy
of messages on the server. Then delete the Pop3uidl.dbx file. You will
get the messages one more time, but that should be it.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must
enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel |
Folder Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder
Options | View.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in question
{Pop3uidl.dbx} and delete it. A new one will be created automatically
when you open OE.

General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user
created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is
feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant
layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems
such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Mike" wrote in message
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I have an Exchange 2003 server & one of my clients (OE 6.0) is
continiously getting duplicate emails, or so it appears.
If I log into the OWA page, I see nothing, but when opening OE, it
downloads about 17 emails, over & over again.
I have deleted the acct & re-created it, but no help.
Any suggestions?

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Ok, first of all, we are hosting our own email, exchange 2003 & when
this happens we can log on to OWA & delete the problem message & thing
will work fine.
What appears to be happening is that the problem email usually turns
out to be a bulk email, but not necessarily SPAM. Emails from Apple,
Mac Zone, or anything like that will set this off.
Any reason why these messages would cause it to hang up?
I enabled troubleshooting in OE, but I have the feeling it may not be
very intuitive - basiically telling me what the progress window does.
Any other suggestions?