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  • Thread starter Thread starter BARRY HARDMAN
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? Just whom do you think you are addressing here?
This is a peer-to-peer help group.

Gary VanderMolen
 
BARRY HARDMAN said:
when are you mob going to fix this 'cannot delete message thing".
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I don't understand these kind of messages. There is always a solution to
mail problems, most of which have nothing to do with Microsoft software.
Mostly it's configuring the email client with the local ISP, and they have
their own weird methods which are totally different from other ISPs'
methods. Unfortunately, standardization is not the norm for ISP email.

EW
 
LoneStar said:
I don't understand these kind of messages. There is always a solution to
mail problems, most of which have nothing to do with Microsoft software.
Mostly it's configuring the email client with the local ISP, and they have
their own weird methods which are totally different from other ISPs'
methods. Unfortunately, standardization is not the norm for ISP email.

EW
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Unfortunately, this IS a Microsoft screw-up.
I don't think you'll see a fix from Microsoft any time soon. My current
theory, and it's only a theory, is that an anti-virus is causing the problem
by deleting messages as they are saved to the hard drive even though email
scanning is turned off. My problem appears to have gone away after
switching to Avast.

Have you tried marking the message as read and then deleting it? That's
what I've been doing and so far it has always worked. Other things:

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

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.

If none of those fixes work for you or you're afraid to try them, use a
different program like Thunderbird, which is free.
 
There is a major issue where the messages get stuck in the outbox and can't
be deleted and that breaks WinMail functionality totally.

That is what the poster was referring to and what is frustrating him and
many many others.

Not to mention that Vista has been RTM since last November and this issue is
not fixed.

It has nothing to do with ISPs.

steve
 
Yeah, I was setting up Server beta and it screwed up the time. When I went
back to Vista I posted all those messages and then I fixed the time, setting
it back again. By doing that it messed up the entire WinMail database and I
had to wipe it all out and start over. The messages were okay, but the
database totally self-destructed and wiped out all the accounts.

That was a whole lot of fun.

steve

Steve

Is your time \zone setting off. You are posting from the future
 
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