Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / October 2003

I have spent probably 5 hours trying to a spellcheck
program to work for my father's Outlook Express E-mail
program.  In the preferences it is in grey and cannot be
highlighted......I tried to download Excalibur, but that

Can anyone give me advice where and how I can make HTML Mails?
I want to promote my band in that way.
Thank you

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So my messages file, (located: HD, Documents, Microsoft User Data,
Identites, Main Identity) is huge! 400 mb!!!! I understand that it
holds all my email message data, and everytime I receive an
attachment, the file size grows. But how come when I delete messages,

I have an iMac computer. I am running OS 9.2.1
In the past month, my clients and friends have been unable
to open attachments that I send.  These attachments have
.zip at the end and their computers will say they don't

I want Outlook Express to play one sound when I get mail, another when
my wife gets mail and yet another when my kids get mail.  Easy in
Entourage but I can't figure it out in Outlook Express.  This Mac
won't do OSX so I'm stuck with Outlook Express.  Any help appreciated.

anyone know what this e mail error means?

I have Mac G-3 and Outlook Express Ver. 5.0.6
Every time I try to open, or add, an attachment the program exits and leaves
me the message. "Outlook Express has unexpectedly closed because of Error
Type 3."  I increased the memory of the program to almost double, and I

The standard method of importing my address book and emails doesn't seem to
be working. Does anyone have any experience going from Netscape 7 to Outlook
Express??? Thanks.

Does anyone know where Outlook Express stores it's e-mail?  My Powerbook G3
went down and I'm trying to recover my e-mail.  I cannot find it anywhere on
the hard drive.  I've tried import with no success.  I have been able to get
my favorites but not the messages.

I just upgraded from OE 5.0.5 to 5.0.6 and one of the
folders taht I created is no longer accessible; I get a
message window with "could not open that feature. Not
enough memory".  This folder does not contain the most

I normally type a number of emails and leave them in the
outbox until I am finished the current task I iof
something new I want to add to an email I have prepared a
bit earlier. Then I send them and go on to the next task.

I restored my software and saved the intire Outlook Express
on a CD. I checked it and everything including unread
e-mail was there. After the restore I reinsert the CD to
view address book and everything appears gone. h

Mac OS 8.6 OE 5.02
All of a sudden I have begun receiving a message saying "5.7.1 This system
is not configured to relay mail from (my email address) to (outgoing email
address).

I'm finding that incoming spam is being almost completely ignored by the
"Rules" list I've created.  Indicating, for example, that I want any message
with "Viagra" in the body deleted has no effect.  I receive spam with three
or four of my "delete" rules included in the body.  Am I ...