Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / January 2004

We are looking for the Spelling option for OE on the Mac OS 9.1 hard drive -
so that we can delete misspellings of words we have mistakenly saved into
the dictionary.
Anyone know where we can find this on the hard drive of the Mac, and if in

As an artist I visit many newsgroups that have binary files. Upon shutdown I
trash all the files and have run Tech tool pro to overwrite all free space.
However these files are still somewhere on my HD. If I open a newsgroup
(even in offline mode) and click on a previously read ...

This is a new one to me. I cannot receieve mail from any of
my accounts, and  receive the following message:
"Could not receive mail from the account... The file can't
be found. Error: -43."

Since yesterday morning our email (through OUTLOOK EXPRESS on Apple
Mac OS9) is knackered. Could it be that new MyDoom virus playin' with
the machines? I've browsed the Symantec site for a solution but it
mentions that Mac aren't effected - so I'm stumped.

My OE 5.0.6 won't open! message says Schedule file appears corrupt. What do I do?

any trick I'm missing to get postings to appear in this newsgroup? I posted
but haven't seen my postings in several days. Thanks, CedricR. (wonder if
this one will appear? ;-)

I really did it this time. Accidentally, "permanently"
deleted my entire Inbox while trying to extract it froma
subfolder it somehow found itself in.
  I made a copy of the "Identities" folder where most of

I have to temporarily use my PowerBook G4 15" for work. I thought I
could just copy my identity folder across and run Outlook Express under
Classic, but I am having a problem. When Outlook Express tries to
retrieve my mail it returns with the error "A connection failure has

I want to edit an info letter. How can I make my message look like a Web
page, with a banner on top, 2 colomns, etc,...?
Sopdes

I am using Outlook Express 5.06 on a Mac running OS 9.2.2 and for some time
now any picture included in the message is replaced by a box with red circle
with a white cross in it.  Attachments work fine.
This has been getting worse and for the past few months no pictures will

The rebuild suggested below didn't seem to work.  My
messages are still jumbled with a lot of compubabble, but
they also seem to be jumbled with other messages (!?).  
Any suggestions?  Please?

Is there anyway to bounce spam in OE? and what does 'burst' mean in the
rules?

I have a file in the drafts folder that I cannot delete.
If I select
it; I
cannot move, drag, clear, delete or manipulated the file

My husband deleted a large number of spam emails before closing down
his iMac. The next morning, outlook would not come up. There was an
unknown error message.
As a safety, I moved his identity file to my machine. Then my outlook

About a month ago  I was unable to launch Outlook Express. A message
said:
Unexpected end of file
I found help at Microsoft Knowledge Base from the following articles: