I hope someone may be able to prevent me putting a hammer through my
computer.
I have recently purchased a dell system and am experiencing frustrating
problems with e-mail using outlook express which comes pre-installed.

I have a few updates that did not install and show as Failed on my update
list. According to the Help section I should be able to do this on the
Add/Remove section of my Control Panel. Neither appear there.
Kb890830  kb913433

When is MS going to do something about this?  I thought I had Automatic
Update configured to ignore this screwed up piece of sh.t update, now MS has
updated the Automatic Update program and KB911567 keeps coming back, I had
to turn off Automatic Update.

It concerns Windows XP Home SP2 with OE6
For making a daily backup I wrote a batchfile using Xcopy.
It copies new and changed files, also the OE dbx files.
Normally, Windows changes after making the backup the attributes

I'm trying to use Outlook Express v6.00.2900.2180 with an IMAP server that
supports the IMAP IDLE extension. The issue I see is that OE sometimes stats
an infinte loop with IDLE commands to the server.
Before an IMAP client uses the IDLE command, it should have choosen a

It concerns Windows XP Home SP2 with OE6
For making a daily backup I wrote a batchfile using Xcopy.
It copies new and changed files so also the OE dbx files (which I moved to
another folder than the standard folder.)

I have been using outlook express for a while with no probs. Then I
reinstalled a office 97, (I know it is ancient), because word was playing up
and now when I select an email address in an external document, 60 + windows
open and a new message is not established. In OE I have  ...

    When I typed a post on a newsgroup I accidentally add @2Ghz to it;while
tring to explain something. I caused it to turn blue;like a link you can
click on. Posted it without realizing it. When I click on it;it opens my
e-mail in my outlook like it wants to send an e-mail. My ...

How do you download messages that say  xxx not downloaded?
Jeff

i am  running  win. home xp . i had to redo my  os  and  hard  drive . i get
a  blue screen  saying  it  dumped  the momorie .  its a  compaq  runnig  
windows  xp home . and  the  pc locks   up

I have OE6 with winxp sp2.  I have .dbx folder files saved from a previous
installation.  I can't seem to import or install them in the new
installation.  Can anyone help?
Thank you,

Recently, message bodies received contain what looks like header info at the
beginning of each message.  But, only those messages written in "plain" text
are that way.  Messages done in HTML do not contain the info, even if they
are read as "plain" text.

Is ther some way to export message rules so they can be loaded on another
PC?

I'm running a windows server with active directory and some workstations.
Is there a way to set the outlook express archive folder to a external drive?
Outlook disables the OK button when I select that drive to become the
archive :|

Like others. I get heaps of spam. My ISP blocks around 1000 a month but lots
get through.
I block the ones that I can be bothered using the "Message" -> "Block
Sender" -> "Yes" -> "OK" mouse clicks for each one.