Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / August 2004

OS9.2.2 powerbook g3 wallstreet 233 H325 ram 2 GB hard drive Outlook Express
v 5.0.6.
I am ³exporting contacts², the transfer is made, and ³Simple Text text
document² shows up on my desktop.

What can I do to stop incoming mail from doubling?
Every message arrives in duplicate, though it isn't that way on the browser.
I'm on OE 5.0.6 with OS 9.2.2 and have already rebuilt the database, pitched
the preferences in MUD and in the system folder, quit and restarted a number

If anyone can offer some advice, I would appreciate it.
I'm trying to recover a file that I spent three hours
working on today.
I opened an email attachment, modified it and then closed

Help! My OE 5.02 on Mac does not launch. It displays error -127. I
reinstalled this application, upgraded to 5.06 but it changed nothing.
Running sef-repair does not change anything neither. Please someone
help!

I have recently had the misfortune to have my
Browser "hijacked" by Marsfind.com what this means is
when i try to do a search instead of searching using
microsoft search engine it goes directly to

Hey All,
I'm trying to figure out how to back up my folders from Outlook
Express.  I have a lot of saved emails in there, and I'm not sure where
they are located on my computer.  I searched under documents and

I just added a word to my dictionary that i didn't wish
to.  This word will now not come up as mis-spelled when it
actually is.  Can i do anything?

I just got a new Mac and want to import my email from my old Mac into my new
one. My old Mac is running OS 9.2 and my new Mac is running OS 10.3. I know
I can export email to OE text message from my old Mac and import that way
into my new Mac, but that is only a one at a time ...

For months, my new emails showed up in my inbox in the order in which they
were received - most recently sent ones appeared on top of the list in bold
print.
Suddenly, the new ones are arriving in no apparent order, scattered randomly

After downloading my mail on Mac OS 9.2 unable t open mail. mouse
works but system is frozen. What can I do?

Whenever I want to designate several addresses in my address book to
receive an email bcc I  type the first letter of each name and then
click on it when it and several names like it appears. Is there an
easier way?

OE 5.02 for MAC: enetering a new contact into ADDRESS BOOK -
program enters new contact details but as soon as you click on the new
contact it changes it to a duplicate of a previously existing name.
result - you lose the new details and double previous contact. if you

My colleague is moving from an old iMac running Outlook
Express 5 to a new PC running Outlook 2003. I have to help
her transfer several thousand emails to the new PC. How do
you do it?

Rather newbie-ish question, for which I apologize. My hard
drive is failing/failed. I've updated last about a month
ago, but need to try and save my outlook express files.
Where can I find them? I can't afford a recovery service,

I recently graduated with a class of 120 students.  One of the graduates
sent a group e-mail to everyone.  I tried to respond to everyone using
"Reply All" but I keep getting error message #5550 (i.e. that the e-mail in
my Outbox could not be sent because "the server did not ...