Outlook Express~email with attachment stuck in outbox

Discussion in 'Software' started by red-bird, Mar 6, 2009.

  1. red-bird

    red-bird Private E-2

    Hi, I'm having trouble sending mail. The emails are stuck in the outbox and won't send, move or delete. Everytime I click on them OE freezes completely. The emails have attachments though I don't know if this is relevent. I'm running XP. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
     
  2. red-bird

    red-bird Private E-2

    I've done it! I searched for outbox.dbx (which, in my case, was in C:\Documents and Settings\s harvey\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{4559A4BD-43C4-45A9-A0B3-5E0C732C52A0}\Microsoft\Outlook Express), deleted this file ~ after closing Outlook Express ~ and then starting her up again. OE will make another outbox folder automatically on re-start and there you go. Recalcitrant emails gone~no more probs! By the way, if you do a 'search' for the file outbox.dbx, tick all the options for searching in hidden files etc. Also, I just put in .dbx just to widen my options. Reezult! Thank you, me!
     
  3. Amethyst_08

    Amethyst_08 Corporal

    :clap Hey, that's great. I had just found this link and was going to post it, looks like you did just what it said.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262052

    My Dad had the exact same thing happen to him a while back and his ISP ended up talking him through it, although I'm not sure how they fixed it.
     
  4. red-bird

    red-bird Private E-2

    Having said all that~I then went back to my 'fixed' OE and found I couldn't delete any messages at all (at least from my googlemail email accounts, though the Hotmail ones were ok~all I could do was move unwanted messages to the 'deleted' folder in my Hotmail account and delete it from there). However, I did the same with the 'deleted.dbx' file as I did with the outbox one (deleted it) and that works too. Hope that helps someone.
     

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