Outlook Express

Outlook Express

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Damaged or corrupted Mailbox.
    Unfortunately this usually means you will lose any
    Mail in the Mailbox. Start | Find Files | type inbox* | look in c:\ |
    In OE4 you should find two files Inbox.idx and inbox.mbx
    In OE5 you should find 1 inbox with the extension .dbx
    Delete the files and they will be recreated when you next open Outlook Express.

How do I backup and restore mail in Outlook Express.
1st Backup the e-mail then Close Outlook Express. Click Start, Find, then Files
or Folders. In  the Named box, enter *.mbx In the Look in box select, your hard drive (usually C:). Find Now
You should now see a list of your Outlook Express mailbox files. "Inbox.mbx", "Outbox.mbx", "
Sent Items.mbx", "Deleted Items.mbx" and "Drafts.mbx" Any additional mail folders you have created in Outlook Express will be displayed with the ".mbx" extension. Highlight all the mailbox files that you wish to back up and copy them to another location such as a floppy disk or an appropriately name folder.
    Restoring the backed-up e-mail
Close Outlook Express. Identify where your ".mbx" files are stored in Outlook Express, and copy
your  backed-up email folders to this directory, ensuring that you overwrite any existing files.
Delete the folders.nch file. Outlook Express saves all the messages in each mail folder with an .mbx extension and you'll usually find them
in either  C:\ WINDOWS\ Application Data\ Microsoft\ Outlook Express\ Mail or C:\ Program Files\ Outlook Express\ Default User\ Mail - the         exact locations depends on your setup. You should have an .mbx file for each mail folder, plus a corresponding set of .idx files
(Which you can ignore!), plus a file named folders.nch, which stores the folders names. To back up your mail, clean out any garbage using: File, Folders, Compact all Folders, then duplicate the .mbx files. They're often quite large, so ideally you will need a Zip disk or Network access. You can then copy the duplicates back into the mail folder if the originals get corrupted!
 

    Please note: in OE5 they have a .dbx extension the mail folder store can be located from
    Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder

MSIMN caused an exception in MSOE.dllRename FOLDERS.DBX --> FOLDERS.OLD
Open Outlook Express - Should be OK

Error 550 - Relaying not allowed?
This error message is coming from the mail server, not from OE itself. It means that the SMTP (outgoing) mail server did not recognize you as an authorized user and so rejected your message. Most ISPs configure their SMTP servers to recognize only those whose IP address is on the accepted list, meaning that you are connected directly to that ISP. If you use multiple ISPs, you are likely to encounter this problem. The solution is to change the SMTP server for that mail account under Tools| Accounts| Properties| Servers.

How do I use Outlook Express to delete large e-mail messages?
Confiigure the Inbox Assistant to do this. Run Outlook Express. Select Inbox Assistant from the Tools menu, and click the Add button. Tick the Larger than: box. In the Size: box, type in the lowest size of message that you want it to delete e.g. 500 KB. Any messages of this size or above will be deleted from the server when you next download your mail. Tick Delete off server, and click on OK. This will return you to the "Inbox Assistant" window, then click on OK again to return to Outlook Express. Downloading the Mail and Deleting the Large Messages. Select Send and Receive from the Tools menu. The mail will now download and any messages of, or above, the size you specified will be deleted from the server. Deactivating the Action. In order to stop Outlook Express continuing to delete mail messages you receive over the specified size, you will need to follow this procedure. Run Outlook Express and select Inbox Assistant from the Tools menu. Untick Delete off server.

If you really need to get at the mailbox try:
    http://www.twigger.co.uk/ | To check mail on any server [ Third party Mail Manager ] 
Customer profile keeps asking for the password
If cmr profile keeps on asking for the pwd without any success (even if pwd is right) try this: drop into DOS // cd\windows\system (enter) // type pstores -install (enter) all is done // type exit and customer can now get mail again OE does this a lot and this is faster than creating new profiles 
To send large messages using OE4
Many mail and news servers limit the size of messages that can be received and sent. Usually this limit is 1MB per message including the attached files. With Outlook Express you can send large messages or files to mail or newsgroups that limit the size of messages they can receive by breaking the message into smaller ones when the group of messages are received the mail program recombines them into one message.
How? go to tools | accounts | Mail | properties | Advanced | select "break apart messages bigger than x KB then enter the max size of file you can send 
Leave a copy of messages on server
If you want to be able to store a copy of your email messages on the server, then there is a setting in Outlook Express that allows you to do this. Warning : If you let your email messages build up to much then the amount of messages will slow down your access to your email. The first thing you will need to do is open up Outlook Express,
MSOE.DLL could not be initialised
Outlook Express could not be initialised, Outlook Express may not be installed correctly. You may find that other "identities " work okay. Except for one, suggest that you create another identity for yourself and use that instead.
Microsoft have a full solution at kb/articles/q245/4/19
Please note that some error messages, most notably errors in msoe.dll, can result from several causes.
Identity Switch Canceled. The current identity could not be changed because one of the applications was unable to switch. Close any open dialog boxes in other applications before trying again.
Microsoft have a full solution at knowledgebase articles/q224/4/63
Outlook Express won't remember the Password Deleted the pop3uidl.dat file from the OE mail folder & restarted OE. Now it remembers the password.
The address book failed to load.
Outlook Express is incorrectly configured. Please re-install.
First remove OE from windows setup, then START | RUN | REGEDIT | remove the following keys from registry
HKEY_USERS \ Default \ Software \ Microsoft \ Outlook express
HKEY_USERS \ Default \ Software \ Microsoft \Wab
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \Wab
Restart Machine | Reinstall outlook Express.
Importing addresses into the Address Book
You can import contacts easily from most previous mail programs.
Goto File, Import and select Address Book... to import another Outlook Express Address Book, or Other Address Book. to import any other type. When the Address Book Import Tool appears, follow the instructions to import your previous program's address book. 
DNS Errors when sending Emails If response is immediate fault is in Domain Name Server [mail.virgin.net]
If response is delayed then fault is in user name [ John.doe ]
Riched32.dll         Here his an easy way to fix the problem:
Insert your Win98 CD
Click on "Start" || "Run", type in"sfc", This opens the System File Checker.