stuck in the good ole outbox !

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i've been watching these comments for the last few weeks....i myself have a
new puter and windows vista and have mail stuck in my outbox which means i
cannot send emails from it......so guess what.....i now use another email
account....
my feelings on this is this: i shouldnt have to uninstall macafee or norton
just so i can use my windows mail.....obviously....microsoft needs to come up
with something to fix this whole thing.....and all those all processes you've
been telling people to do don't seem to work either....and the one
site.....says....not accountable if you download this and it dont work?
sorry....not taking any chances....this puter is GREAT....and funny thing
is....i had to shut off 3 popoff ads just to write this
note.....amazing.....why does microsoft have to give pop ups on their
website???????
oh well.....i hope they fix this problem real soon....i dont think too many
people are happy with them right now !
thanks and have a nice day !
 
taleah said:
i've been watching these comments for the last few weeks....i myself have
a
new puter and windows vista and have mail stuck in my outbox which means i
cannot send emails from it......so guess what.....i now use another email
account....
my feelings on this is this: i shouldnt have to uninstall macafee or
norton
just so i can use my windows mail.....obviously....microsoft needs to come
up
with something to fix this whole thing.....and all those all processes
you've
been telling people to do don't seem to work either....and the one
site.....says....not accountable if you download this and it dont work?
sorry....not taking any chances....this puter is GREAT....and funny thing
is....i had to shut off 3 popoff ads just to write this
note.....amazing.....why does microsoft have to give pop ups on their
website???????
oh well.....i hope they fix this problem real soon....i dont think too
many
people are happy with them right now !
thanks and have a nice day !
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Sooner or later McAfee or Norton will cause other problems in Vista.

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.
 
I still use my Symantec and have no problems with it doing what it should.
But the, deleted folder and outbox folder problem was too much for me, it had
to be fixed.

Here is what I did, which may be a bit more lengthy than what most people
need to do due to the Vista user problems my version has. Most people should
be able to go to Computer, C Drive, Users, select their user name, and see
the AppData file from there, and I cannot.

I went to start
in the start search area (just above start) I entered C:\Users\my user
name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail (note that Windows Mail must be
written as two separate words)
I clicked on Windows Mail at the top of the list page
I selected WindowsMail.MSMessageStore and pasted a copy in my documents
(just in case)
then deleted the file
I opened the Backup folder
then Opened the New folder
Deleted the WindowsMail.MSMessageStore in this folder
Closed out of everything and then upon opening Windows Mail it restores
itself and also gives you several "restore" folders under the default folders.
I then proceeded to input my emails into the folders by copy and pasting (I
did notice a note online while searching that stated it is not a good idea to
copy and paste several emails at once as this action can cause another
"ghost" email, it also stated that doing anything too fast can cause this
problem.)

I hope this helps. I am more than happy to save anyone and everyone from
having the problems I've had.
CF
 
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