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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / General Topics / August 2007Recieving New Emails
When I open Outlook Express and recieve new emails, some will show up as "Unread" or "Highlighted" with an unopened letter icon (normal) and some show up as "Opened" or already "Read" and not "Highlighted" with an opened letter icon (abi-normal.) Any qlue as to what this is about? This started about a week ago. Are you referring to a name@hotmail.com or name@msn.com account? Had you opened/read any of these messages on the web-mail page?  Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org > When I open Outlook Express and recieve new emails, some will show up as > "Unread" or "Highlighted" with an unopened letter icon (normal) and some > show up as "Opened" or already "Read" and not "Highlighted" with an opened > letter icon (abi-normal.) Any qlue as to what this is about? This started > about a week ago. no hotmail or msm. have not opened or read on web-mail page. I use Road Runner from my cable system with CA Secuity Suite. These "pre-read" emails can come to my approved folder or spam folder. > Are you referring to a name@hotmail.com or name@msn.com account? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > letter icon (abi-normal.) Any qlue as to what this is about? This started > > about a week ago. Are all of these messages in your Inbox? Does the behavior persist in a new identity (File > Identities > Add new identity)? General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is automatically compacting your message store. - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection. Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org > no hotmail or msm. have not opened or read on web-mail page. > I use Road Runner from my cable system with CA Secuity Suite. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >>> started >>> about a week ago. My anti-virus app. (Ca Secuity Suite) has had firewall problems. A tech last week turned off email protection in my firewall settings. Then tiurned it back on. That's when my problem started. Are you saying to go to my firewall and turn off this protection there or somewhere else in my anti-virus program? > Are all of these messages in your Inbox? > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >>> started > >>> about a week ago. Repost: >> Are all of these messages in your Inbox? >> >> Does the behavior persist in a new identity (File > Identities > Add new >> identity)? Email scanning might be causing the problem, yes. It provides no additional protection and even Symantec says it's not necessary: <QP> Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. </QP> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2002111812533106 Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org > My anti-virus app. (Ca Secuity Suite) has had firewall problems. A tech > last [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] >>>>> started >>>>> about a week ago. No, some emails come to my inbox and some to my anti-spam folder. I can switch idenities and am not sure that it makes a difference. I changed idenities and recieved an email to my anti-spam folder that appeared to be "read" but I had not seen it before. Never touched it and was in my inbox at the time. I don't have Norton. I have CA Security Suite anti-virus software. With this software I can turn off email protection in the firewall section and in the anti-virus section. Where do you think the place would be to turn email scanning off? > Repost: > >> Are all of these messages in your Inbox? [quoted text clipped - 71 lines] > >>>>> started > >>>>> about a week ago. > No, some emails come to my inbox and some to my anti-spam folder. No anti-spam applications play nice with OE. I recommend disabling or uninstalling it. > ...I have CA Security Suite anti-virus software. > With this software I can turn off email protection in the firewall section > and in the anti-virus section. Where do you think the place would be to > turn > email scanning off? Start by disabling email protection in the AV module. (I suspect that the firewall's email protection doesn't really "scan" messages or attachments themselves.) Signature~PA Bear > No, some emails come to my inbox and some to my anti-spam folder. > I can switch idenities and am not sure that it makes a difference. [quoted text clipped - 95 lines] >>>>>>> started >>>>>>> about a week ago. |
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