To begin with I stupidly reinstalled my OS (Windows XP Home - SP1) without
first backing up my address book or OE message folders.
Now I'm paying the price.
The thing is though is that the files are sitting right there. The new

What might cause the email icon from not appearing in the systray when new
mail is received?

Hi - with 3 daughters my IE6 favourites lists has many hundreds of entries -
I started trying to arrange them this morning but it is taking hours to drag
and drop each into selected folders - I am sure whilst I have been browsing
MS site I have seen a page that allows easy ...

I just switched to RoadRunner which uses outlook express for the mail
client, and I am unfamiliar with it. I still have Earthlink, which uses a
very similiar format to Outlook Express. Yesterday I was able to send and
receive messages. Today-can only receive. Tried to send a test ...

When I copy a newspaper article for pasting into the body of a message, I do
two things: first I select the printer friendly version provided by the site,
then after pasting that into my message, I delete the ads (frames) that
remain by moving my pointer around to find the ...

I would like to disable Outlook Express from being able to send to any
addresses bar one particular one. Is this possible? If so, how do i go
about it?
TIA!

I'm new to XP and have set up different user names for all members of the
family. The two adults in the family would like to be able to access the same
e-mail account. I have set up the e-mail (outlook express) for each of us -
one for each user with the same settings - but only ...

Today, I had to re-input 10 accounts after a re-install of all my software.
I noticed under "File | Import", there are choices to import BOTH, "mail
account" settings AND "news account" settings.
What files do I need to have backed up so I can import the mail and news

When replying to newsgroup posts and clicking on "Send", a blank window
appears with what appears to be a check box and three buttons, none of which
are labelled. Clicking on any or all of them has no effect and the only way
a reply post can be sent is to first saved to the "Drafts" ...

I didn't get any responses on the ME & MSN groups, so reposting on OE6 group
for the mail problem.  Any way to recover/restore OE6?  
6/27/2005
I’m posting this on ME & MSN discussion groups.  My platform is ME SP1 on a

i have outlook express on my pc with MIcrosoft office 2000 and Open Office
1.4. I want to every document who comes on mail open with open office not
with microsoft office does enybody know how. If i change file association
with open office it is good when i save on hard disc but ...

From time to time my OE will randomly decide to compact all folders when all
I've done is close OE.
Does anyone know why? Can I prevent this from happening?
Its a pain in the rear as it often will happen at the most inconvenient

I am running XP Pro and Grisoft AVG w/ MSFT firewall on.  AVG is updated
daily and scans daily for viruses.  
I just noticed that emails I sent for about the past three days are not
being transferred to my sent folder although they are being received by the

Hello, I have version 6.00.2900.2180  w/ SP2 and am having a problem with my
main identity. When I open OE it tries to go to the server but cannot open it
and I get the following error message:  "An unknown error has occurred.
Account: 'mail.caturner.com', Server: 'mail.caturner ...

Something new message in IMAP Inbox are showed as deleted and I can't change
this status, but on the server (with another client) these messages are not
marked as deleted. Any idea ?