Stuck in Outlook Express

[Bud Cline]

JC,

Some months ago I sent an email through Outlook Express but it failed for some reason. Now every time I send an email thru Outlook I keep getting the same notice that yet another attempt to send this same email was made and failed.

The other emails go thru ok but this same failure keeps popping up. I can't clear the message and I can't delete it.

Any ideas?

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[JC]

Well bud, since I am not very familiar with Outlook Express i cannot really guess at the problem, Maybe someone else who uses it would know the answer.

However if you have a back-up of the set-up file I would write down the e-mail info in the program and re-install the program and that should stop it.
If you don't have a set-up program for Outlook(it will be on the windows98 disc) you can also simply download it from the net(chances are it will be a newer version also).

That should fix and reset everything for you.

remember it might not be anything you are diong it could just be a bug in the program.

http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe5/backup/index.htm

One of these perhaps: http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe5/problems/index.htm

http://www.okinfoweb.com/moe/

[Edited by JC on 10-01-2001 at 12:20 PM]

[Bud Cline]

Thanks JC.

I don't like to mess around too much tweakin' things I usually come out the loser on those deals.

This is all flatfloors fault because this was an email I had originally tried to send to cementpro (flatfloor).

This same thing happened once before (months earlier) and again it was an email to cementpro. Couldn't get rid of the notice until one day I was screwin' around in Outlook and wiped out everything, I mean everything. I had some emails I was saving until I die and they were lost.

[JC]

Personally I would download a better mail client and transfer everything to it. Outlook is too unstable and prone to just about every virus/exploit out there except Foot and Mouth desease.

[Bud Cline]

OK, now your making me nuts (and thats a short trek).

I use an email that comes from (with) my ISP. That's the extent of my knowledge. Only by fumbling around one day did I discover that every email I had ever received was repeated in my Outlook Express. Of course I deleted all of that one day.

Anytime I respond to an email address that appears at a website (cementpro for example) Outlook Express takes over at the controls and that's that. I know this because the page is always labeled Outlook Express in the top left corner. I don't choose it, I don't do it on purpose, it just happens.

For me to change anything now is very scary to me.

[JC]

read this

http://info.connect.com.au/docs/emailconfig/index.html

Yea microsoft has a way of bieng very controling and possesive..but then again that is way they got nailed by the government and why every computer geek in the world hates them.

You can always just use one of these there free and Outlook can't capture anything.Besides if your tired of seeing spam this will start you out fresh again. Where's another emial client will continue to keep getting spam.

http://www.anonymous.to/

[John Bridge]

I with Bud (again) on two counts. I don't trust that cementpro site (;))and I'm too chicken to load another email program. Hell, I'm still trying to figure out Outlook Express.

[flatfloor]

You will all be pleased to know Cementpro is no longer associated with MSN Hotmail. For about a month now it's been connected to my ISP's email server

[John Bridge]

That means we should be able to mail kathleen@cementpro.com, right?

[flatfloor]

Absolutely not, she has moved to another state where she has her own website http://www.badgateway.org any problems contact the host or administrator

[cx]

Oh, are we all supposed to email Kathleen again?

I ain't seen no picher yet!

How many emails you reckon she got? :D

[various]

hmmm

[JC]

Messed up

[flatfloor]

Ok, whodat, the Shadow or the Invisible Man?

[JC]

Yea it's me Jim...not invisable coz there is the little 'logged' link in the lower corner that tracks your IP adress, the option is availiable for moderators and owners.Dead giveaway.

Now you can hide your IP if needed by using something like this:

http://@nonymouse.com/

or by filing out the proxie server info in your browser and using a proxie server.
http://www.ijs.co.nz/proxies3.htm

list here http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/

simply put first part in the space in your browser option and the the last number is your port number and that goes in the second box or however IE has it set-up these days.
It will slow you up somewhat but can be used to protect your self from malicious web sites etc.. and Proxies are often used by schools and businesses to censor content...so it might be a easy option if you have kids and want to keep the somewhat limited for them.
Just set a profile for them in the browser(or else set a passworded profile for you in the browser) and have them run through a academic approved proxie.





[Edited by JC on 10-07-2001 at 12:13 AM]