Re: Bogus Message in OE Outbox

Your current OE Identity may be damaged, especially if its the default Main Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named Identity (File > Identities > Add new identity). Assuming all is well, import messages from the old Identity before deleting it (File > Identities > Manage Identities).

To avoid such corruption in future:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

- Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place (WinXP SP2 only).

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
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OE General newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

rosecottage wrote:
Bieen looking for help for over 24 hours. Don't know if this is OE or
Microsoft question. I have firewall active and Zone Alarm along with AVG
anti-virus software and Anonymizer anti-spyware. here is the problem...I
recieved two emails from my pop server. One appeared as it should in the
Inbox, the other appeared in the Outbox addressed to an email I have
never seen and a subject line that was misspelled. Body contained one
word "unsubscribe". I Shift>deleted it. Where did it come from and how
did it end up in my outbox ready to mail itself to an email address I
have never seen. Anyone have a clue??

.

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