I have OE set to send ng messages immediately. For the last week or so I
have been having trouble sending posts. It puts up an error message saying
too many connections or something like that (error 502 - probably my ISP's
error number). I have dial up.

It puts the message in the outbox, and then when I exit and reenter it tries
to send it, but not always successfully. I just had to exit and reenter
three times to get it to send.

Does this sound like a problem with my ISP, or with OE, and if it could be
OE, do you have any suggestions. Thanks...Pete

"Pete" wrote in message
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I have OE set to send ng messages immediately. For the last week or so I
have been having trouble sending posts. It puts up an error message saying
too many connections or something like that (error 502 - probably my ISP's
error number). I have dial up.

It puts the message in the outbox, and then when I exit and reenter it
tries to send it, but not always successfully. I just had to exit and
reenter three times to get it to send.

Does this sound like a problem with my ISP, or with OE, and if it could be
OE, do you have any suggestions. Thanks...Pete



Try the following:

Create a new folder and name it OldSent
Move all the messages from the Sent Items folder to the OldSent folder.
Move any messages from the Outbox to the Drafts folder, you can resend them
later.

Tools | Options | Maintenance tab
Press the Store Folders button and note the location of the message stores
(dbx files). Write this down.
Close OE

Open Windows Explorer
Tools | Folder Options | View tab
Select "Show all files....."
Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types...."
Click Apply then OK

Now navigate to the folder you wrote down from the Store Folders dialog.

Delete the Outbox.dbx and the Sent Items.dbx files.
This create new (undamaged) and empty folders for OE.

Restart OE and rty to send the messages again.

DGuess wrote:
"Pete" wrote in message
...
I have OE set to send ng messages immediately. For the last week or
so I have been having trouble sending posts. It puts up an error
message saying too many connections or something like that (error
502 - probably my ISP's error number). I have dial up.

It puts the message in the outbox, and then when I exit and reenter
it tries to send it, but not always successfully. I just had to
exit and reenter three times to get it to send.

Does this sound like a problem with my ISP, or with OE, and if it
could be OE, do you have any suggestions. Thanks...Pete



Try the following:

Create a new folder and name it OldSent
Move all the messages from the Sent Items folder to the OldSent
folder. Move any messages from the Outbox to the Drafts folder, you
can resend them later.

Tools | Options | Maintenance tab
Press the Store Folders button and note the location of the message
stores (dbx files). Write this down.
Close OE

I already know where the .dbx files are, and keep them on my desktop.



Open Windows Explorer
Tools | Folder Options | View tab
Select "Show all files....."
Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types...."
Click Apply then OK

I already have "everything" unhidden in windows explorer.


Now navigate to the folder you wrote down from the Store Folders
dialog.
Delete the Outbox.dbx and the Sent Items.dbx files.
This create new (undamaged) and empty folders for OE.

Thanks DGuess...It sounds like you think there is some corruption in the
outbox or the sent box or both. I do have oodles of messages in the sent
box, so if they are corrupted then moving them to another location will not
fix the corruption in them - they all seem to read okay when I click them
on.

Are you sure windows will put back the .dbx folders if I delete them. I
know it will not let you delete the outbox or sent box folders in the folder
pane. If I delete them in explorer, wouldn't it also delete them in the
folder pane also. But I guess you are saying windows will put them back. I
get nervous about stuff like that. Also wouldn't I have to reboot for
windows to put them back, or not...Pete



Restart OE and rty to send the messages again.

"Pete" wrote in message
...


Thanks DGuess...It sounds like you think there is some corruption in the
outbox or the sent box or both. I do have oodles of messages in the sent
box, so if they are corrupted then moving them to another location will
not fix the corruption in them - they all seem to read okay when I click
them on.


No, not necessarily. If the message won't move, you found the culprit.


Are you sure windows will put back the .dbx folders if I delete them. I
know it will not let you delete the outbox or sent box folders in the
folder pane. If I delete them in explorer, wouldn't it also delete them
in the folder pane also. But I guess you are saying windows will put them
back. I get nervous about stuff like that. Also wouldn't I have to
reboot for windows to put them back, or not...Pete


OE has to be closed to do this and actually it's not Windows that put the
files back,it's OE and since Windows doesn't do it, no need for a reboot.

OE has a set of default folders that are created should one be corrupt or
missing, Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, Drafts are the folders.,
Offline and Pop3uidl are two additional files witl Folders.dbx recreated
should it be missing and willl resurect the folder structure.

I haven't messed with this program for ten years and not learned something
about it.

David Guess
Microsoft MVP Outlook Express

Pete wrote:
DGuess wrote:
"Pete" wrote in message
...
I have OE set to send ng messages immediately. For the last week or
so I have been having trouble sending posts. It puts up an error
message saying too many connections or something like that (error
502 - probably my ISP's error number). I have dial up.

It puts the message in the outbox, and then when I exit and reenter
it tries to send it, but not always successfully. I just had to
exit and reenter three times to get it to send.

Does this sound like a problem with my ISP, or with OE, and if it
could be OE, do you have any suggestions. Thanks...Pete



Try the following:

Create a new folder and name it OldSent
Move all the messages from the Sent Items folder to the OldSent
folder. Move any messages from the Outbox to the Drafts folder, you
can resend them later.

Tools | Options | Maintenance tab
Press the Store Folders button and note the location of the message
stores (dbx files). Write this down.
Close OE

I already know where the .dbx files are, and keep them on my desktop.



Open Windows Explorer
Tools | Folder Options | View tab
Select "Show all files....."
Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types...."
Click Apply then OK

I already have "everything" unhidden in windows explorer.


Now navigate to the folder you wrote down from the Store Folders
dialog.
Delete the Outbox.dbx and the Sent Items.dbx files.
This create new (undamaged) and empty folders for OE.

Thanks DGuess...It sounds like you think there is some corruption in
the outbox or the sent box or both. I do have oodles of messages in
the sent box, so if they are corrupted then moving them to another
location will not fix the corruption in them - they all seem to read
okay when I click them on.

Are you sure windows will put back the .dbx folders if I delete them.
I know it will not let you delete the outbox or sent box folders in
the folder pane. If I delete them in explorer, wouldn't it also
delete them in the folder pane also. But I guess you are saying
windows will put them back. I get nervous about stuff like that. Also
wouldn't I have to reboot for windows to put them back, or
not...Pete

DGuess...I also wanted to tell you that I just started getting another error
message when I try to click on my ng's on my ISP's server which may or may
not be related to the "posts not sending" problem. It is the standard "an
unknown response was received in response to a request for information from
the news server localnet.com". I called localnet about my "posts not
sending" problem, and they said no one else has reported any problem like
that. I didn't tell them about the new error message I just mentioned. Now
do you think it is more likely that it is an ISP problem, than the corrupted
sent box we talked about. I could also try removing my localnet account and
adding it back in again, but that will be somewhat of a hassle adding all
the ng's back, etc.

Also, I just found this googling -

I keep getting a 502 error (too many connections) when I try to connect to
the news server. What is this and how do I get rid of it?
a.. Our news provider only allows two simultaneous connections to the news
server. Some news readers (especially Outlook Express) will open up as many
connections as they can, eventually causing this error message to appear. If
you can limit the number of simultaneous connections in your news reader,
limiting the number of connections to two will resolve this problem. If,
however, you are using Outlook Express, the only real resolution is to
switch to a different news reader.
What do you think. My OE always worked okay before...Pete

Start by deleting the Sent Items and Outbox.dbx files.



"Pete" wrote in message
...
Pete wrote:
DGuess wrote:
"Pete" wrote in message
...
I have OE set to send ng messages immediately. For the last week or
so I have been having trouble sending posts. It puts up an error
message saying too many connections or something like that (error
502 - probably my ISP's error number). I have dial up.

It puts the message in the outbox, and then when I exit and reenter
it tries to send it, but not always successfully. I just had to
exit and reenter three times to get it to send.

Does this sound like a problem with my ISP, or with OE, and if it
could be OE, do you have any suggestions. Thanks...Pete



Try the following:

Create a new folder and name it OldSent
Move all the messages from the Sent Items folder to the OldSent
folder. Move any messages from the Outbox to the Drafts folder, you
can resend them later.

Tools | Options | Maintenance tab
Press the Store Folders button and note the location of the message
stores (dbx files). Write this down.
Close OE

I already know where the .dbx files are, and keep them on my desktop.



Open Windows Explorer
Tools | Folder Options | View tab
Select "Show all files....."
Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types...."
Click Apply then OK

I already have "everything" unhidden in windows explorer.


Now navigate to the folder you wrote down from the Store Folders
dialog.
Delete the Outbox.dbx and the Sent Items.dbx files.
This create new (undamaged) and empty folders for OE.

Thanks DGuess...It sounds like you think there is some corruption in
the outbox or the sent box or both. I do have oodles of messages in
the sent box, so if they are corrupted then moving them to another
location will not fix the corruption in them - they all seem to read
okay when I click them on.

Are you sure windows will put back the .dbx folders if I delete them.
I know it will not let you delete the outbox or sent box folders in
the folder pane. If I delete them in explorer, wouldn't it also
delete them in the folder pane also. But I guess you are saying
windows will put them back. I get nervous about stuff like that. Also
wouldn't I have to reboot for windows to put them back, or
not...Pete

DGuess...I also wanted to tell you that I just started getting another
error message when I try to click on my ng's on my ISP's server which may
or may not be related to the "posts not sending" problem. It is the
standard "an unknown response was received in response to a request for
information from the news server localnet.com". I called localnet about
my "posts not sending" problem, and they said no one else has reported any
problem like that. I didn't tell them about the new error message I just
mentioned. Now do you think it is more likely that it is an ISP problem,
than the corrupted sent box we talked about. I could also try removing my
localnet account and adding it back in again, but that will be somewhat of
a hassle adding all the ng's back, etc.

Also, I just found this googling -

I keep getting a 502 error (too many connections) when I try to connect to
the news server. What is this and how do I get rid of it?
a.. Our news provider only allows two simultaneous connections to the
news server. Some news readers (especially Outlook Express) will open up
as many connections as they can, eventually causing this error message to
appear. If you can limit the number of simultaneous connections in your
news reader, limiting the number of connections to two will resolve this
problem. If, however, you are using Outlook Express, the only real
resolution is to switch to a different news reader.
What do you think. My OE always worked okay before...Pete

David...Thanks for all your comments. Everything seems to be okay now. I
think it must have been my ISP and their subcontractor (supernews). I have
saved all of your comments and will have them for future reference if need
be :-) ...Pete

DGuess wrote:
Start by deleting the Sent Items and Outbox.dbx files.



"Pete" wrote in message
...
Pete wrote:
DGuess wrote:
"Pete" wrote in message
...
I have OE set to send ng messages immediately. For the last week
or so I have been having trouble sending posts. It puts up an
error message saying too many connections or something like that
(error 502 - probably my ISP's error number). I have dial up.

It puts the message in the outbox, and then when I exit and
reenter it tries to send it, but not always successfully. I just
had to exit and reenter three times to get it to send.

Does this sound like a problem with my ISP, or with OE, and if it
could be OE, do you have any suggestions. Thanks...Pete



Try the following:

Create a new folder and name it OldSent
Move all the messages from the Sent Items folder to the OldSent
folder. Move any messages from the Outbox to the Drafts folder, you
can resend them later.

Tools | Options | Maintenance tab
Press the Store Folders button and note the location of the message
stores (dbx files). Write this down.
Close OE

I already know where the .dbx files are, and keep them on my
desktop.

Open Windows Explorer
Tools | Folder Options | View tab
Select "Show all files....."
Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types...."
Click Apply then OK

I already have "everything" unhidden in windows explorer.


Now navigate to the folder you wrote down from the Store Folders
dialog.
Delete the Outbox.dbx and the Sent Items.dbx files.
This create new (undamaged) and empty folders for OE.

Thanks DGuess...It sounds like you think there is some corruption in
the outbox or the sent box or both. I do have oodles of messages in
the sent box, so if they are corrupted then moving them to another
location will not fix the corruption in them - they all seem to read
okay when I click them on.

Are you sure windows will put back the .dbx folders if I delete
them. I know it will not let you delete the outbox or sent box
folders in the folder pane. If I delete them in explorer, wouldn't
it also delete them in the folder pane also. But I guess you are
saying windows will put them back. I get nervous about stuff like
that. Also wouldn't I have to reboot for windows to put them back,
or not...Pete

DGuess...I also wanted to tell you that I just started getting
another error message when I try to click on my ng's on my ISP's
server which may or may not be related to the "posts not sending"
problem. It is the standard "an unknown response was received in
response to a request for information from the news server
localnet.com". I called localnet about my "posts not sending"
problem, and they said no one else has reported any problem like
that. I didn't tell them about the new error message I just
mentioned. Now do you think it is more likely that it is an ISP
problem, than the corrupted sent box we talked about. I could also
try removing my localnet account and adding it back in again, but
that will be somewhat of a hassle adding all the ng's back, etc. Also, I
just found this googling -

I keep getting a 502 error (too many connections) when I try to
connect to the news server. What is this and how do I get rid of it?
a.. Our news provider only allows two simultaneous connections to
the news server. Some news readers (especially Outlook Express) will
open up as many connections as they can, eventually causing this
error message to appear. If you can limit the number of simultaneous
connections in your news reader, limiting the number of connections
to two will resolve this problem. If, however, you are using Outlook
Express, the only real resolution is to switch to a different news
reader. What do you think. My OE always worked okay before...Pete