I keep seeing advice to keep folder sizes under 100MB.
Pardon my ignorance, but how can the size of a folder be determined?
Lyall Kingman

A friend of mine runs a club mailing list and accidentally deleted the group
mailing list from his OE address book.
Is there any way to recover the group?
I suggested he simply recreate the group albeit a tedious task with so many

Outlook Express spell check is now in French.  In the tab labeled spelling
it shows on one choice French.  I check with a friend and he says that his
drop down box for language has a long list of language including english
(us).  Any thoughts?  Thanks for any help.

What do you do if some of your emails have a "+" sign next to them because
Outlook Express has compressed some of them to save disc space? You have to
click on the "+" and then the e-mails appear. I don't like this because I
don't always know where these e-mails are or don't see ...

Don't know when and how, my IE (V6.0.2900.2180.xpsp2_gdr...) could only open
an empty IE wondow once I clicked a link in an Email within the Outlook
Express 6. Seems like the URL variable failed to be transferred to the
browser.

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'pop.charter.net', Server:
'smtp.charter.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error:
10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
I have McAfee installed, but I don't think that it is the problem... Here is

I've seen a lot of posts on this subject but unfortunately none of them have
helped me.  My hard drive crashed but it appeared to only affect the OS.  I
still have access to all of the old files.  I have been able to move my OE
messages from the old hard drive to the new machine.

We have email problems with several of our clients and customers.
To these customers, every time when we email out (using Outlook) with
attachments, such as .doc and .pdf and .jpg files. These email was received
with one large garble inline text message, but no attachment, by these

I would like to send a message ( reply) to all the senders of messages
in a
folder in Outlook Express. How can I do so - as when you have more
than one

Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated.
I recently had a new hard drive installed in my machine.  Because of that,
we decided to repave my machine in order to take care of some fragmentation
issues.

Cannot send mail.  receive error message 0x800CCCOD for both POP3 and SMTP.
Contacted net zero and followed instructions to reconfigure OE, didn't work
Turned off Norton antivirus scanning of out and in email, then tried
sending..didn't work.

Can someone please advise me as to where I go to set up an "Out of office" or
"On vacation" notice, that will send an e-mail to anyone who sends me an
e-mail during a designated time period, informing that e-mailer that I will
be away?

while in outlook my electric went out 45 min. later i was able to go backin
outlook but now i'm missing 7 folders  i need 3 of them badly so i found them
by doing a computer search at  
C:\Documents and Settings\my name\Local Settings\Application

I use Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP and also have Outlook 2003 installed.
Outlook IS NOT set up for e-mail.  All e-mail is done through OE.
I also use OE to read several newsgroups.  If I select REPLY GROUP -- it
pops up an OE window and I can reply without incident.

Windows XP SP2, all updates
Why does the spellchecker in OE try to install VS2003 Architect ? Happened
after I installed VS2008 Express.
ThoraD