cannot erase a Mail

[Heini der Walker]

Hi,

i have a mail in the outpost and cannot delete it, after a crash.
What can i do?

Heini

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Read the other posts in this newsgroup.
There's not much you can do about it.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Hi,

i have a mail in the outpost and cannot delete it, after a crash. What can
i do?

Heini

1. Mark it as read and try deleting it.

2. Try repairing the database with WMUtil from www.oehelp.com

3. There are two copies of WindowsMail.MSMessageStore, One in
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Microsoft\Windows Mail
and one in
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Backup\New
If you delete both of these the database will be rebuilt. However, while no
messages should be lost, some may be downloaded again and you may lose some
record of which have been read. I recommend that you only do this when they
are causing you trouble, like when they are in the Outbox. Otherwise I now
just mark them as read and ignore them.