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Hi all

I have a blank email on my desktop so that if I want to write an email
ready to send later on my dialup I don't have to open outlook express.

All of a sudden it has changed so that when I open it it appears to be
an email I have received ie. it has the address and subject lines
completed instead of having the white boxes ready to fill in.

I have tried remaking it but can't remember how I did it. I think I just
"created" a new email in OE as though I was about to send one and then
saved it but that's not working now.

I'm not sure when I last used this and am wondering if the windows
updates may have changed something? More likely it was me fiddling
though. Any ideas how I made the blank email to start with would be
appreciated.

Thanks
miskairal
 
One of the latest Windows Update caused the problem.

14. Uninstall Outlook Express Patch 911567 (April 11, 2006) to restore
unsent message functionality.
Read about it here..
OEHelp
http://www.oehelp.com/

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Wesley said:
One of the latest Windows Update caused the problem.

14. Uninstall Outlook Express Patch 911567 (April 11, 2006) to restore
unsent message functionality.
Read about it here..
OEHelp
http://www.oehelp.com/
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Thankyou! I read through some problems I found elsewhere but they didn't
mention this.
 
David said:
An unsent mail has this line in the header.
X-Unsent: 1
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Hi David,
I have done Wesley's fix but won't know if it works until I restart my
pc which I will do once I disconnect from the internet. In the meantime
I'm curious about what you have written because X-Unsent: 1 DOES appear
in the header. If this is the problem, how would I fix it? Sorry but I'm
one of those people who is always asking questions (doesn't mean I
remember the answer).

Thanks for your time.
 
If that line is present then you can edit the mail To etc. When a mail is sent that line is removed. To convert sent mail to unsent mail you edit in notepad and add the line.
 
David said:
If that line is present then you can edit the mail To etc. When a mail is sent that line is removed. To convert sent mail to unsent mail you edit in notepad and add the line.
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Well the windows update removal doesn't seem to have worked. I can open
drafts ready for editing but still not my desktop blank.eml file. I've
recreated a new one but still no go even though the x-unsent: 1 bit is
in there.

The other odd thing I've just noticed is that Thunderbird is affected. I
use it for newsgroups, just to keep them separate from email, and this
reply has "lost" some quoted text and your line above appears so that
there is now a horizontal scrollbar instead of dropping down a line. Any
ideas?
 
miskairal said:
The other odd thing I've just noticed is that Thunderbird is affected. I
use it for newsgroups, just to keep them separate from email, and this
reply has "lost" some quoted text and your line above appears so that
there is now a horizontal scrollbar instead of dropping down a line. Any
ideas?
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forget that bit as it only seems to be when I try replying to your post
that happens. Not any others.
 
Because some of us use Outlook Express, top post and the signature separator
(--) does something to remove part of the text. People accuse me of this
all of the time.

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Thanks Wesley.
Don't suppose you have any idea why my blank email still won't work?
Is there any other way to have a shortcut for an email to be composed
without opening OE?
Hmmmm, I'm being really slack here and should get off to Google shouldn't I?
 
Because some of us use Outlook Express, top post and the signature separator
(--) does something to remove part of the text. People accuse me of this
all of the time.
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Wesley, remove the space after the two hyphens of the signature delimiter
to allow (most) newsreaders to keep text that follows your sig. Of course
it's a no win situation as this will result in other NNTP users complaining
that you didn't include it. ;)
 
Hi Sharon,

On every post?

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Hi Sharon,

On every post?
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Hi Wes~
On every post if you want to use OE and have the text below your signature
to be included in quoted replies. Since you'll get complaints either way,
may as well leave it as it is.

With some newsreaders, the delimiter is manually added by the user to the
sig block. You only have to type it once and the whole shebang gets added
automatically along with the rest of the sig.

Of course if you bottom posted, none of this would be a problem but we
won't go there. ;^)
 
I wasn't complaining, just couldn't work out what was going on :)
I remember about 2 years ago asking here why some people complain about
bottom and top posting and then I went away for a couple of days. When I
got back it looked like war had been declared and someone thought I
might have been a troll to have started the topic.
 
I wasn't complaining, just couldn't work out what was going on :)
I remember about 2 years ago asking here why some people complain about
bottom and top posting and then I went away for a couple of days. When I
got back it looked like war had been declared and someone thought I
might have been a troll to have started the topic.
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LOL! Top- vs bottom- posting It's an ongoing debate with good arguments for
both sides. Personally, I'm agnostic on the topic (was just giving Wes a
tease). Anyhow as Wes has already said... the sig delimiter combined with
your newsreader respecting the construct of delimiter is the explanation
for what was going on.
 
A declared war just about covers it. LOL

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Hi Sharon,

You'd be surprised about how many bottom posts that I do not even bother to
scroll down and read. Or maybe you wouldn't. ;-)

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Hi Sharon,

You'd be surprised about how many bottom posts that I do not even bother to
scroll down and read. Or maybe you wouldn't. ;-)
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Nah, I wouldn't be surprised. I don't like scrolling too far either. I use
a newsreader that has an excellent feature: a toggle to suppress or show
quoted material. Hiding quotes makes reading a thread easier - regardless
of top/bottom replies. If I want/need to see the quoted material, a quick
click takes care of it. Wish someone would make an add-on for OE that would
do the same.
 
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