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Help with mail not deleting messages
Nancy McGough nan...@ii.com comp mail misc news software readers comp os msdos mail-news alt usenet offline-reader comp os ms-windows apps misc I use mail folders to organize all kinds of information, mostly messages gleaned from newsgroups and mail. In the Unix world I use a combination of elm, nn,

Lost Folders
This is probably because he and I have found our mail in different locations on our systems. And from that, I surmise that Windows may put mail in different locations. Thus, you should locate your mail by searching for "folders.dbx". Bill Starbuck (MVP)

cannot start pegasus
I am sorry to say that I didn't have "compact in the background" enabled (never have; I always go offline, to the root OE folder, and compact all folders. .... Address book information: The Windows Address Book http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm 10. Links are broken in email messages: This is fixed with

Two sets of e-mail folders. Can they be merged?
In theory, it is now safe to use Outlook Express 5 for reading and sending Email-but don't use it yet. 5. Delete the files kak.htm from the Windows folder and <name>.hta from the Windows system folder. <name> is an eight character string representing a hexadecimal number-ie it consists of some combination of

My Documents Problem
I thought each mail folder had a corresponding subdirectory name in the Windows file system! I have followed the advice of deleting the snm files (all 1248 of them! In fact, if I rename a mail folder in Netscape, it doesn't get renamed in the Windows file system! What's wrong? System is Windows XP.

What do I do now? (KAK)
Tom Lee wrote: I have a problem with Mozilla 1.3 (Windows) not keeping e-mail messages, within the folders, in sync using IMAP. In 1.3, I can move or delete a message from my Inbox or any folder and all seems fine until I check my messages using a different IMAP program. When I use another IMAP program,

Question re Mail Folders
Is there a way to transfer my mails to my old Netscape 4.7 folder/profile, or any old profile? Yes. As you are posting with Forté Agent I assume you are running some version of Windows. 1. Make sure Netscape 4.7 is not running. 2. Look in the Windows directory containing your Netscape 6.2 mail files.

O/T urgent techie help required
Vivien anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows inetexplorer ie6_outlookexpress I wonder if you could help please. I had to restore my PC to the original factory settings so I compacted my e-mail folders (about 10 of them as I hade created new ones)and copied them to a CD.

outlook express folder
Nigel Molesworth re...@thegroup.com microsoft public windows vista mail I've got my Windows Mail folders in a real mess! When I reinstalled Vista I pointed WM at the old store folder on another drive, but instead of just picking up the old messages, it filed them under "Recovered ...". The store folder then had two

mail folders
I was told that it would be in c:\windows.. but I found mine on my "D:\" partition. You can find it by doing a "Find | Files or Folders, by typing in *.mbx or *.ibx These are the files created by Outlook Express for the stuff in each of your Mail folders in Outlook Express. I found out that OE leaves some "residue"

Exporting messages from VM to a windows mail program
The windows and DOS versions use a different method for storing folder information. You need to do Browse mail folders -> F10 -> F10 -> Check tray list to recover these folders to the folder list. You should also rename the 'Copies to self' folder to 'Copyself' so that both the long and short filename is the same.

outlook express slow loading
Make backups of the folder mentioned before proceeding. To share your E-mail messages across two or more platforms, you must create a symbolic link across the file systems. For our example we will be sharing a Mail folder located in Windows with Linux. This is assuming that your profile is in a folder called

Downloading web-based e-mail folders into Windows Mail
Han van den Bogaerde JAAvdBogae...@CAIW.NL bit listserv pmail On 7 Jun 96 at 17:05, Rey Carolino wrote: In one of our users, no mail folders show up if he uses the Windows version of Pegasus Mail (version 2.33). However, if he uses the DOS version (version 3.31), his mail folders are there. Any suggestions?

Where are the local mail folders stored?
When I opened one of my folders, all of the e-mails disappeared. I recently installed Norton Anti Virus on my computer. The .dbx file is empty. Mail Folders, Address Book, and E-mail Messages Are Missing After You Upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313055 If

Backing up Settings in Outlook Express
Thanks in advance, Brent Yes, I do a similar thing but sharing folders over a network. The trick is that you need to keep separate prefs.js etc files for Windows and Linux, since the prefs.js files store the locations of the mail folders etc. I have attached a script below that I use to setup on Linux a set of

Email import/viewing problem from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mai
My biggest MAIL folder is 10.3 MB (Deleted Items), a long way from 100MB (or 2GB!). Andy I. "Steve Cochran" <scoch...@oehelp.com> wrote in message Address book information: The Windows Address Book http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm 10. Links are broken in email messages: This is fixed with the Mondo

Backing up mail folders
From your own Windows login, run OE5 and create a new identity. 2. Using the Tools | Options menu, select the Maintenance tab and click on Store Folder. 3. Use Browse, and select the proper storage directory. 4. On the next dialog, answer "Yes" (reuse the existing mail files in that folder). 5.

I don't get it: OE can't open
Finally, my question: When I tried to back up my e-mail folders, I used Windows Explorer and found what looks like my e-mail folders in two places on my c: drive, both of which have substantial size. 1. Local disk (c)/Program Files/Outlook Express/MYNAME/ then e-mail file folders (dbx files) 2.

E-mail folders on my computer
After clicking the Windows Setup tab, I scroll down to OUTLOOK EXPRESS and uncheck it? This will remove it from my system, then I do the same thing in reverse to put it back, right? Before I try that, is there anyway of backing up the MESSAGE RULES? I've got my mail folders backed up -- that's no problem,

I lost all my old created mail folders
When I first started using Windows Mail on a new PC running Vista Home Premium, I quickly ran into the problem in which certain message files could not be deleted ("An unknown error has occurred"). I tried forcing a rebuild of the database and tried to build new mail folders. Okay, so the bad (undeletable) files