Outlook Express problem Thread poster: Williamson
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Williamson United Kingdom Local time: 20:21 Flemish to English + ...
Normally when you sent a message of Outlook Express at copy of your message is stored in the "Sent Items" folder.
Whenever I sent a message, no copy is stored in that folder, although Options>Send>Save Copy of Message in my Inbox is ticked. Does anybody have a clue what is going on (and no I am not going to switch to Opera). | | |
Sorana Puiu Romania Local time: 22:21 English to Romanian + ... Microsoft support | Nov 25, 2003 |
try on the microsoft webpage, there may be a bug and you need to install some of the patches they regularly produce. Check also critical updates page.This should solve it. | | |
Wenke Geddert United Kingdom Local time: 20:21 Member (2004) English to German + ... Outlook Express | Nov 25, 2003 |
Click on tools, options and "send" to check whether the first box "save copy of sent messages in 'sent folder' is ticked". If it is ticked and messages are still not saved, I would suggest to contact the MS support desk. HTH | | |
Wenke Geddert United Kingdom Local time: 20:21 Member (2004) English to German + ... Disregard previous email | Nov 25, 2003 |
Sorry, just realised that you've actually explained this in the second part of your message. Please contact MS support in this case... | |
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Cicero United Kingdom Local time: 20:21 Japanese to English + ... Outlook Express | Nov 25, 2003 |
Hi
We have had the same problem here. When the sent items folder is too full and too much memory is taken up, mostly due to attachments, then that folder does not want to accept anymore. We also had one case where the sent items folder was corrupted and had a supposed size of 245MB. We had to delete it completely. Starting Outlook Express again automatically created a new one.
To see the size of the sent items folder and maybe delete it, go to C:\WINDOWS\Application Dat... See more Hi
We have had the same problem here. When the sent items folder is too full and too much memory is taken up, mostly due to attachments, then that folder does not want to accept anymore. We also had one case where the sent items folder was corrupted and had a supposed size of 245MB. We had to delete it completely. Starting Outlook Express again automatically created a new one.
To see the size of the sent items folder and maybe delete it, go to C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\ “a very large identification number”\Microsoft\Outlook Express.
If you need more help by all means contact me.
Best wishes
Didier ▲ Collapse | | |
Hynek Palatin Czech Republic Local time: 21:21 English to Czech + ... Too many messages | Nov 25, 2003 |
Cicero wrote:
When the sent items folder is too full and too much memory is taken up, mostly due to attachments, then that folder does not want to accept anymore. We also had one case where the sent items folder was corrupted and had a supposed size of 245MB. We had to delete it completely. Starting Outlook Express again automatically created a new one.
I agree, there are probably too many messages in the Sent Items folder. You can try to delete some of them, preferably containing large attachments.
You can also start with a new Sent Items folder, but you don't have to delete the old one, you can keep it under a different name. Let me know if you need step by step instructions (create a new folder, put a dummy message in it and copy the "sent items.dbx" file over the new dbx file). | | |
Textklick Local time: 20:21 German to English + ... In memoriam
Remember you can go through the mails with attachments and delete the attachments by right clicking on them/clear You presumably have the attachments stashed elsewhere anyway... | | |
Cicero United Kingdom Local time: 20:21 Japanese to English + ...
Textklick wrote:
Remember you can go through the mails with attachments and delete the attachments by right clicking on them/clear You presumably have the attachments stashed elsewhere anyway...
Hi
I don't seem to have this function, I can only delete the whole e-mail. It would be great though. Which version of Outlook Express is this? I have Version 6
all the best
Didier | |
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Williamson wrote:
Normally when you sent a message of Outlook Express at copy of your message is stored in the "Sent Items" folder.
Whenever I sent a message, no copy is stored in that folder, although Options>Send>Save Copy of Message in my Inbox is ticked. Does anybody have a clue what is going on (and no I am not going to switch to Opera).
I would you like suggest you these programs...
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