Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / November 2003

We have ADSL and recently we been getting a lot of 3171
and 3259 error messages when we receive email.
I'm unable to locate these errors on the MS Knowledgebase.
Anyone else get these errors? what do they mean? is there

I lost my email files with all my folders.  I now only have a startup
version.  Can anyone help me find it???
Dale

Here at the Office, our Sales Department staff has recently asked us if it
is possible for customers that recieve art proofs from the Art Department to
send replies to BOTH departments without "replying to all".
I attempted to put my e-mail and the sales' addresses into the account

Does anyone know how to select a particular mail account when starting up
Outlook Express?  Outlook gives you the option to select a mail account on
startup.  I have looked and looked and can't find any way of choosing my
other mail account.

Hi, help, please...
My DSL tech support suggested I reinstall, because it was
crashing often.  What they didn't tell me was that it would
uninstall my Outlook Express.  Consequently, I can't find

Can any movie files (mpg. rar, wmv. quicktime etc) be played back in OE
5,02?

Is it possible to use OE to do a mail merge?  I can easily do this in MS
Word and save as HTML but am don't know how to include the email address so
the letters automatically get sent.  

Outlook express is doing something very odd ! I send emails with
several jpgs attached, in my sent items I can see the correct number
of attachments but when the email arrives at it's destination it has
only 1 jpg attached.

Help!
I accidentally changed the color for level one quoting and can't find the
default setting so I can put it back.
Could someone (who hasn't changed that color) please go to:

I have a music store and also have an eBay store.  I use
my Outlook Express for returning messages, and keeping
track of my UPS shipments.  When I delete something - I
keep it in the Deleted Folder for reference.

I get about a dozen mails purportedly from Microsoft every day about a 'new
security update' or 'undeliverd mail'... I assume this is connected to some
kind of viral problem. Does anyone have a potential solution for this?
with thanks

Recently some of my unread messages are a light green instead of red.  How
can I correct?

Friend is running oe5.05 on a G4 under 9.2.
Pretty large collection of emails in lots of folders and nested folders.
Suddenly cannot open or download any emails or even view the contents of a
folder or inbox. Same error message pops up (error 4362). Would appear the

I'm having frequent Outlook crashes and I can't figure out why. Every time
it crashes I get a type 3 error message. It usually crashes when I'm running
another application and Outlook is in the background. I'm not certain but it
seems to crash when it checks for new mail as per the ...

Running OUtlook Express 5.0.6 on OS 9.2.2, I keep getting the above-named
system errors when I give the SEND command; the computer crashes but the
message goes to the Outbox and is not lost. I compact the database and the
error stops, then starts again a day or two later. Do you ...