Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / December 2003

Has any Mac user here experienced the problem of  suddenly not being
able to drag addresses into a forwarded email in outlook express ?
suddenly when I bring up the address book it blanks out the message
box to be forwarded and will not drag an address to the box.

I can't send or receive any e-mail using my Verizon DSL
account on my Mac which is running OS 9.2. I'm connecting
to the DSL modem through a Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL
router. I tried going to the Linksys website and changing

Are there a limited number of recipients you can send to
per email with OE?

No matter how I try to delete a message (received, sent,
or otherwise), nothing happens.  Then I click the message
open and try deleting it that way and an error message
reads, "This message cannot be deleted," which pops up

I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2 and have a new problem with my MS
Outlook Express 5.06.
Whenever I check email by highlighting it, the OE browser
freezes.  I'm unable to perform a "Force Quit" and need to

My Identities File in the Microsoft User Data folder has grown very
large. I tried moving it to a Firewire Disk and placing an Alias to it
in my Documents Folder. OE boots and then tries to import all of the
data thus defeating the purpose of moving it in the first place.

Please help!  I have used outlook express 5.0.6 for several years with
earthlink as isp.  Last night, outlook express crashed, and I am no longer
connected to earthlink, have no back messages, and no address book.  There
is one message in my inbox saying "welcome to outlook express" ...

I am on Apple Mail on a Mac. Often, when receiving e-mail attachments
from a friend who is using Outlook Express on a Mac, I get the
following message:
"This message cannot be displayed because of the way it is formatted.

I get an error message stating "can not send to 'onewest.net'"
-I remade the account in oe and am getting error 3205.
does anyone know what th is is?

On my iBook running OS 9, none of the messages I receive in Outlook Express
5.0 in HTML format are displayed as they should, the message window showing
only text with some formatting and a few HTML tags.
Since I know various people that have this problem, (and some that don't,

I've started using Outlook Express to access my Yahoo-based Internet
email from my iBook.  I'd like to be able to have the same address
book and messages on BOTH machines, the iBook and my G3 desktop.  I
copied the messages file from the iBook to the G3, but it doesn't show

Cannot receive messages in OE-----Can send them! Am doing this for a
friend so previous post was based on incorrect info.     Sorry!

get the message
for outlook on my imac
mail lists file corrupt
what to do

due to a hard disk error, i've lost my copy of OE 4.5 software,
macintosh version.  i downloaded 5.0.6, but can't import my backed-up
contacts or emails since my old OE 4.5 application is damaged.  i
can't find 4.5 on the microsoft downloads "mactopia" page-- is there

I've hit the 2gb limit on message file. I thought I can
work around this by creating a new identity and then
transferring all the old messages to it. When I try to
import it askes for the OE users folder. I can't find