Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / August 2003

I have an Ibook where I use Outlook Express mailprogram.
I am not able to open my mailaccount because of an error message
saying: "The Mailing Lists File is corrupt".
Another account in Outlook Express is possible to open, so this is

I have the following configuration
HP Pavilion with Windows ME
Internet Connection sharing enabled
DirecWay satellite connection to Internet

Help - yesterday i retrieved my messages - it said i had 71, they
downloaded from the server but never showed up in my inbox.  i have
outlook express 4.0 and there is no paid support at microsoft anymore
- any suggestions?

I do not know a whole lot about Macs or OE for Mac.  I
have a user who sporadically gets the following error
message:
[IN-USE] accout busy (locked by another POP3 process)

I'm getting an error stating that my email could not be retrieved
because "end of file was reached." This only happens with messages
that have attachments. I get the same error when I attempt to send a
message with an attachment. What a pain!

This is a really silly question, but I did something and cannot get my
message window to go back to showing my messages by the order they were
received. What should I do? Thanks

When I type a "T", for example, into the New Message To box, Outlook 5.0.5
crashes. This even happens when I'm adding a CC address.
I downloaded 5.0.6 but I can't open it since even clicking on the icon
automatically opens 5.0.5. and I can't delete the program since I have no

This isn't meant to be a criticism, but the this group doesn't have a lot of
adhearents.
Are there other sources to get questions answered, or to study OE.  I am
sure some of my problems (and they aren't great) just require checking a box

Um, last night under the influence of a bit of alcohol, I sent my boss
a rather nasty e-mail. This morning I'm sort of shocked and freaking
out.
Oops.

I just notice that in the view-columns option for this group there is no
"thread indicator".  Wha's up?
Thanks
Marty

I get quite a bit of junk mail. I tried to stop it being downloaded by
entering common words from the subject and or Cc into rules, yet still I am
recieving these emails.
Any suggestions?

I seem to be having a problem, that others on the list have been
repeating.
About 3 weeks ago a problem developed using OE and sending
attachments. No matter the size of the attachment, 79K or 3megs, the

I created 2 new e-mail accounts (on adelphia), but I cannot connect them to
the identities that I created for the identity window.  Does anybody know
how?? Please help!
Friedemann

Hello. I am using a Mac G4 and running OS X and I also have an OS 9
desktop. I first started using Outlook Express today and it opened in
OS 9. I set up my identity and I can receive e-mails but I cannot send
them. When I try to send them, I get an error message that says:

Can anybody tell me how to send an HTML Email, that includes pictures and
links?
There are a couple of scenarios I have in mind:
Click on "Send Link" in MSIE, and be able to receive and read the web page