The button to select Outlook Express as my default messaging program is
greyed out.  How can I configure Outlook Express to make sure it is my
default messaging (email) program?  I'm using Windows XP SP2 and IE6.  Thanks.

Outlook Express says this upon opening, you are not connected to the
internet, work off-line or try again....once I click try again, everything
is fine.... Why is it not recognizing me as being online when I am ?
helpppppppp lol

The spell checker has a dictionary that it uses to determine that there is
such a word.  Acronyms, abbreviations, etc. are treated as misspelled words,
since they aren't in the dictionary.
Is there a way to add these words to the dictionary whenever I click on

On occassion i send a reply to a message and it doesn't save a copy into the
sent folder, eventhough the option is enabled and there are recently sent
messages in the folder.  It is boggling because it seems to happen when i
write detailed and forceful replies regarding important ...

I have had to fetch the old Micron P II - 450 out of the barn and fire it up
again because my other MoBo died.
This is running win98 and has OE5 and "had" IE5. I kept the OE5 but dumped
the IE5 in favor of Firefox.

Old computer (Windows XP), open pix in file and choose e-mail items. Goes
directly to Outlook Express as attachments.
Second new computer (Windows XP), same, except won't go to Outlook Express.
I get a pop=up that sez Choose Profile and defaults to Microsoft Outlook. If

I seem to be getting paranoid about security these days (getting
anti-spyware and anti-adware software, etc. for my computer).  I'm also
looking at the issue of security in email clients.  (OE usually gets
attacked in this regard !)  I also revisited a thread of mine (Aug. 3 or ...

When I click on a message in the newslists and choose "copy to" the window
that opens up has only "Local Folders" in unexpanded form.  When I click on
it's +, it expands and remains expanded when I next need to access it, -
until I close OE6.  Then, the next time I use it, it is ...

When I reply to email from certain senders, the emails are listed
"backwards."  The original email is at the top, and my reply cursor defaults
to
the bottom of the page. So the most recent email is at the bottom instead of

I used to get all the postings from days to months.  Now all I get is only
the last couple days.  It seems like if the postings are 4 or 5 days old,
that they delete themselves.  Any Ideas????
Thank You

When I try to delete certain messages from my Outlook Express 6.0 in box, no
deletion occurs.  If I open the message and hit the X up top, I get a
display saying the message could not be deleted.
This started 4 days ago.

When I try to create a message usong "Create Mail" within Outlook Express I
get the following error: "There was an error opening this message. An error
occurred."
If I try and open "Addresses" I get: "Unable to apen the Address Book. The

I just set up a brand new ThinkPad laptop to pull down my Hotmail into
Outlook Express, and I set it up precisely as my old laptop was set up.
Everything works great, except that I cannot delete messages from any of my
folders (including my Inbox). I get the following error:

I am  using Outlook Express in XP MCE SP2 (new laptop).
Sometimes when I click on an email address on the taskbar or elsewhere,
instead of opening OE - which is my default mail app - it opens instead an
emailer from Word (which looks like OE).  How do I make it open OE instead

I just trasferred data from old computer to new using files and settings
transfer wizard. Two people use this computer - each has his own email
account. On the old computer each had separate address lists. The lists were
merged on the new computer under the name "administrator". ...