Outlook Express sending my previous email when I reopen Outlook

Welshjim . ..

Opened your link & went into windows task mgr....I enabled that option as nothing was checked. Still did n't help....don't know what I should do to remedy this EXCEPT for the dreaded unistall and re-install. I REALLY loathe and hate that kind of **** - it cause MORE problems than it's worth. Virus wise, I have Norton, so did a scan yesterday and NO viruses were discovered but it found two peices of spyware but none look too worrying . . one was something called Ebates and another thing. I don't know what the heck is my next move . . .still pondering.

 

Grasping at straws here.

I've seen this error before when compacting folders. In my case it was caused by my antivirus program being set to monitor the email. So, if you have Norton's email scanning function on, try turning it off and see what happens. Perhaps it's the source of your problems. It may not be but it's worth a try.

 

Zander . . .

. . . . let me go into Norton & check that! I'll get back...I'm getting more & more frustrated! Back soon...

 

Zander . . .

. . . I went into Norton and un-checked those email scanningboxes. Tested it by sending a mail to my secondary address and still get an 'ERROR' and the outgoing DOES get received by my secondary address but is originally stuck on my OE outbox. So that wasn't the problem. BTW, Norton recommends keeping the email scanning checked....

 

PeteC . . .

. . . NOT running ZoneAlarm firewall on this end. I do have the firewall that came with my Windows XP Pro enabled though. I also have firewall protection enabled via my internet provider Charter.net so STILL don't know what the heck else this could be . . .

 

Daniel--This does not help your problem, but concerning your statement

One of the experts on OE (Tom Koch) says it is not needed and can cause problems.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
Look under "Viral Irony ".

 

Welshjim . . .

. . . I tried that. I disabled the email scanning of my outgoing messages in OE and tried sending an email. STILL happens. I went to that other forum and nooticed that other fellow is experiencing the same exact problem. I posted there but he never posted back. I really don't know what the heck to think of this problem. FYI, I have had Norton for many moons and used it in conjunction with OE and never expperienced this problem . . . all the while it scanned incoming & outgoing messages . . . .so . . . .

 

PeteC . .

. . . the frustrating thing is that I am NOT on the phone line. I am hooked up to my cable television service's high speed broadband hookup,(384kbps) and cannot figure this out!

 

Good idea . .

. . . . can you suggest the BEST way? Something that I won't have to unistall or reinstall this or that? Any help would be much appreciated. I use my primary OE address for biz so this is getting to be frustrating.

 

Not sure I wanna go there . . .

,,,because I have SO much important stuff on my c:\ drive....a couple websites and folders containing hundreds and hundreds of important images I license out . . .not to mention what's in my OE mail folders, address book etc. Seems like too much to risk. Especially if I'm not all that keen on backing up data. I mean, I suppose I need to get started burning all kinds of stuff on disk etc.? It'd be a time connsuming nightmare...... not sure if that would even work as I read on ANOTHER OE forum that someone uninstalled and reinstalled OE and the problem was STILL THERE.

 

Thanks PeteC - I need to back up everything ANYWAY . . .

. . . but just to let you know, I did contact an old helpful friend when I first got online several years ago. Here's what she said - - OE is not worth it!. And she's had nothing but trouble with it & decided to use some program through the FireFox browser. Know anything regarding Thunderbird? Here is a partial segment of her missive:

I've had lots of trouble with OE and I highly recommend switching to
Firefox browser and Thunderbird email. Both free, and you can import all your folders to
the new email program, plus your address book, and it is easier to back up. I know how
skiddish you feel about those folders. I must have over 50 folders. It was a seamless transition,
and it has a junk filter that works like a charm. I've never seen a better spam and phishing junk
filter. You will have a junk folder so you can inspect your email before you delete it. If you need
any help after this, let me know. I have mastered this email program and really love the browser,
Firefox so much better than IE7. You can even use it independently of Firefox.

Download it free: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

 

my difficulty still persists with OE . . .

...but I did download a trial version of ScanDBX and the trial version only lets you know of problems it finds. The full version finds AND repairs. So after I did a scan, here is my report card:
FOUND:
#1.NETWORK CONNECTION TESTER: Some network connections could not be completed (due to my Norton, or so I assumed)
#2.EMAIL ACCOUNT SCANNER: ScanDBX has detected 3 errors in your email accounts (????huh???)
#3.MAIL STORE FILE SIZE TESTER: Warning, some of your OE mail store files are near the size limit.

I then cancelled the rest of the scan due to it SLOWLY doing it's thing . . . but if anyone has feedback . . .