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• Outlook Express: How to remove attachments in an Email received without changing anything else

  Hi Bruce et al.,.

  By "anything" I mean the date of the email such as Outlook Express.

  The problem that I am overcoming makes my huge Message Store because of a few emails I get with huge attachments.

  I can save attachments on my hard drive, but I still want to save email for reference.

  In the past, I have created a response to the email, which is not fix the fastener, but have not sent. I keep the 'response' and delete the original e-mail. It's messy, but it works.

  I looked for a solution and fall on this one. I would like to know if there is a better and safer way.

  What I do is drag the e-mail on my desk and correct it in "Notepad ++» I remove what looks like an attachment that appears to be encoded in base64.

  For example, I remove from here:

  -0016364eef3a6cb259049c527692

  Content-Type: application/pdf; name = '.pdf '.
  Content-Disposition: attachment;
  "filename ='.pdf '.
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
  X fixing-Id: f_gk6v23of0

  JVBERi0xLjYNJeLjz9MNCjI0MTMgMCBvYmogPDwvTGluZWFyaXplZCAxL0wgOTYyNjM4OS9PIDI0
  MTYvRSAyMTY5MjkvTiA0NTkvVCA5NTc4MDgwL0ggWyA3MDE2IDE3OTMwXT4 + DWVuZG9iag0gICAg...

  here:

  MDAwIG4NCjAwMDk1NzQwMTIgMDAwMDAgbg0KMDAwOTU3NDEyMCAwMDAwMCBuDQowMDA5NTc3ODI1
  IDAwMDAwIG4NCnRyYWlsZXINCjw8L1NpemUgMjQxMz4 + DQpzdGFydHhyZWYNCjExNg0KJSVFT0YN
  CG IS
  -0016364eef3a6cb259049c527692-

  The two identical lines "- 0016364eef3a6cb259049c527692 -" seem to define the attachment, and when the file is saved and dragged in my OE Inbox, it looks and reads the same, same dates etc, but with no commitment and no apparent problems with OE to open it.

  Is there a better way?

  Thanks as usual for any help you can give.

  Roger.

  I don't think that your question is so bad. In theory, each dbx file has a maximum capacity of 2 GB. In reality, they probably become corrupted long before that. Normally, I propose now about dbx files a 300 MB max to err on the side of caution. 0.25 GB = 250 MB, (kinda, sorta, close enough), so it's not a problem.

  You need to be most concerned with is backup OE on a regular basis. Here's my standard advice for OE. Last mentioned is OEQB backup tool that is invaluable, still free.

  General precautions for Outlook Express:

  Do not archive mail in the receipt or sent items box. Create your own user-defined folders and move messages you want to put in them. Empty the deleted items folder daily. Although the dbx files have a theoretical capacity of 2 GB, I recommend all a 300 MB max for less risk of corruption.

  Information on the maximum size of the .dbx files that are used by Outlook Express:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=903095

  After you're done, followed by compacting your folders manually while working * off * and do it often.

  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the processors and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• In Outlook express, how do I set up a 'out of office' message please?

  In Outlook express, how do I set up a 'out of office' message please?

  If you do this, you must let your computer 24/7, be connected to the Internet and open your e-mail program. If you want to do this anyway, the link below will show you how do it. One thing I would say is that where it says to create a rule and change you it to check for all Messages, and that the rule for the people in your address book. Otherwise you will answer Spam as well and could end up in an infinite loop of rebounds.
   
  Most of the servers of ISPs Internet/Mail to offer this service which would be a better choice.
   
  How to set up a reply automatic holiday in Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail
  http://email.about.com/od/windowsmailtips/Qt/Vacation_Auto_Response_in_Windows_Mail_or_Outlook_Express.htm
   
  Configure Outlook & Outlook Express auto respond to incoming e-mail messages
  http://www.onecomputerguy.com/app_info/outlook_autoresponse.htm 

• In outlook Express, how to open a PPS attatchment

  When I receive an email in Outlook Express, how do I outomatically have opn when I click on it?

  Hi Bill,

  Happy new year!
  Regarding your question, a PPS file is in fact a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show file. You must have the following Microsoft Office installed in order to open it.
  You can install the PowerPoint Viewer to open it, but the Viewer allows you to open, but not modify it.
  See you soon ~!

• in Outlook Express, how can I send the same message to a group important (in the address book already), but have to each recipient can only see his name (not the Group)

  In Outlook Express, how can I send the same message to the large group (already in the address book), but have to each recipient can only see his name (not the Group)?

  To use the functionality of the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy), in a new message window, click View | All headers and type the addresses separated by a; Or: Click the button to. You will see your list of contacts and the choice to put them in the To, CC, or BCC field. Click on an address, and then click BCC to add it. Repeat for all of the contacts you want. (Note: most of the providers have limits as to how many messages you can send both a. 25 is common, but it varies).

  Put your own address in the box to. That's the only name/address that any recipient will see. If you leave the field empty, some people may not receive e-mail because of message rules they put in place, or restrictions imposed by their ISP.

  You can also make an entry in the address book using your e-mail address, but put something like the mailing list in the area of the display.

  *********************

  You can also create groups if you send e-mail to the same people often.

  To create a group of contacts:

  You can create a single group name (or alias) to use when sending a message to several contacts at the same time. Just create a group name and add individual contacts to the group. Then just type the name of the group in the box for when you send mail.

  1. in the address book, select the folder in which you want to create a group. Click New in the toolbar, and then click New Group.
  2. the Properties dialog box opens. In the group name box, type the name of the group.
  3. There are several ways to add people to the Group:
  a. to add a person from your address book list, click Select members, and then click a name in the address book list.
  (b) to add a person directly to the group without adding the name to your address book, type the person's name and e-mail address at the bottom of the Properties dialog box and then click Add.
  to add a person to both the Group and your address book, click New Contact and enter the appropriate information.
  (d) to use a directory service, click Select members, and then click search. Select a directory service in the drop-down list at the end of the text box. After finding and selecting an address, it is automatically added to your address book.
  4. Repeat for each addition until your group is defined.

  Note

  a. to view a list of your groups separately from the list of address book in the address book on the view menu, make sure that folders and groups is selected.
   
  b. you can create multiple groups, and contacts can belong to several groups.

  If you want to send to a group without addresses are displayed for each recipient, open the address book and make a new entry. Enter the name of the group in the area of the display, but use your address. (Some Internet service providers require a legitimate address in the line to and recipients will know it's from the Group).

  Click on the button to. Enter the name of the group using your address. Enter the group in the BCC field.

• How can I repair file DBX corrupted outlook express.

  2 GB of data is available canned Inbox.dbx, but because of the corrupt header files dbx or any other problem, I'm not able to see the mails.

  Kindly help.

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact

  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery tools:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

  Bruce Hagen ~ MS - MVP [Mail]

• I need to use another email outside of outlook express, can I remove it?

  When I try to reply to an email in a Web page, he's trying to use outlook express.  I can't use it.  I have att and was created after 11, so I can't configure it with outlook.  I can simply remove outlook express?  He'll be back to att or gmail?  Help is a mess.  Oh yes and I run it on xp but I have a w7 as well.

  You can not remove Outlook Express because it is part of XP. The problem here is that Craigslist wants you to use a mail client and Webmail not. If the use of Gmail is good to you, see if that helps.
   
  How to set your default e-mail to Gmail
  http://www.ehow.com/how_5151392_set-default-email-gmail.html
   
  If you make the file Inbox.dbx Read Only, OE does not open yet. Perhaps it is another thing to try.
   
  In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.
   
  With OE closed, find the box of Inbox.dbx. Right-click | Properties and check the read-only attribute.

• A message from problem Outlook Express crashes, cannot remove

  When I get a message from problem in Outlook Express, marked with a blue "down arrow" which means a low priority, it crashes Outl. Expr. so I can't post it, remove it, or anything.  I have to close Outl. Exp. and reopen it and avoid to come to her.  I received another message from the same retailer online with the same arrow and was able to remove it, but this one puts me.  I tried connecting with the email client in Windows 7 on my wife's cell phone to see if I could delete it, but he apparently left the server.  It seems therefore that the message has disappeared, but still in my Inbox.  How can I get rid of him?

  Turn off the preview pane so that when you select, OE try not to make it.  Then hold down Shift as you remove them.  It should disappear. Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
  --------------------------------
  https://MVP.support.Microsoft.com/profile/Brian.Tillman
  If a response may help, please vote it as useful. If a response to the problem, please mark it as an answer.

• My computer will not delete emails in my Outlook Express, how to fix this?

  I hope you can help!

  You have corruption of dbx files.
   
  Spend most of your messages out of the Inbox and move the messages you want to record off deleted items, and sent items. Locate the OE message store and then close OE.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.
   
  With OE closed, find the Deleted Items.dbx and Sent Items.dbx files and delete them. New files will be created automatically when you open OE.
   
  Compact all folders as described below.
   
  To avoid this in the future:
   
  Do not archive mail in the receipt or sent items box. Create your own user-defined folders and move messages you want to put in them. Empty the deleted items folder daily. Although the dbx files have a theoretical capacity of 2 GB, I recommend all a 300 MB max for less risk of corruption.
   
  Information on the maximum size of the .dbx files that are used by Outlook Express:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=903095
   
  After you're done, followed by compacting your folders manually while working * off * and do it often.
   
  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.
   
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the processors and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

• Outlook Express: How to generate a specific auto response?

  Hello;
   
  I would be grateful if someone can help me or give a link to the manual.
   
  1) assume that I would be out of the Office on June 12, 2011 to July 11, 2011.
   
  2) I would like a specific auto response message to be sent to the shippers during this period.
  Something like:
  ... Subject: of Office AutoReply: (original subject)
  ... Thank you for your e-mail.
  ... Please note that I am currently out of the office.
  ... If the matter is urgent, please contact *.
  ... I refer you all messages Monday, July 11, 2011
  ... Kind regards.
   
  3) I don't have a clue about how or where to start!
   
  Can you please help or give an idea?
   
  Thank you.
  Monir

  If you do this, you must let your computer 24/7, be connected to the Internet and open your e-mail program. If you want to do this anyway, the link below will show you how do it. One thing I would say is that where it says to create a rule and change you it to check for all Messages, and that the rule for the people in your address book. Otherwise you will answer Spam as well and could end up in an infinite loop of rebounds.

  Most of the servers of ISPs Internet/Mail to offer this service which would be a better choice.

  How to set up a reply automatic holiday in Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail
  http://email.about.com/od/windowsmailtips/Qt/Vacation_Auto_Response_in_Windows_Mail_or_Outlook_Express.htm

  Configure Outlook & Outlook Express auto respond to incoming e-mail messages
  http://www.onecomputerguy.com/app_info/outlook_autoresponse.htm

• Can I recover emails in Outlook Express after a clean reinstall of windows XP?

  I performed a clean reistall windows XP and lost my AddressBook and emails. I didn't, that, unlike most e-mail systems, that Outlook Express was actually located on my computer. Is there a way to recover these emails or I just learned a lesson?

  I performed a clean reistall windows XP and lost my AddressBook and emails. I didn't, that, unlike most e-mail systems, that Outlook Express was actually located on my computer. Is there a way to recover these emails or I just learned a lesson?

  Outlook Express is a desktop client and all mail clients remove the messages from the server if it is a POP3 account and unless you select the option leave a copy of messages on the server that has been put at your disposal. What is a POP3 account?

  If it is a POP3 account, you're probably SOL, but before you give up, try this tool. You can find messages, and it's not free, so no harm to try.

  Recuva
  http://www.Piriform.com/Recuva

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• Outlook Express: How to change the default location of mail and press kits?

  I use windows XP with Outlook Express 6 (6.00.2900.5512).
  I want to change the destination of the mail folder. (MY C drive is made of only 6 Gbs, and 5.5 GB is now eaten.)

  It's a bit complicated, so do first a backup of your posts.  See www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

  So what you do is to create a new directory where you want to as the message store to be moved.  Then, in OE, go to tools | Options | Maintenance | Store the file and set this new directory.  Then close OE and reopen it.  OE will then move the store the entire message to this new location.  Do NOT move the files yourself.  If you do, then OE will overwrite the files that you moved and you will lose all your messages.

  So save your messages first, and then create a new directory to the new location and then say OE the new location and when you open it again, it will move the files.

  To clear more room, also go to start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Disk Cleanup and which should lead to more space on the disk.

  Steve

• Outlook Express - how to recover deleted emails

  original title: Outlook Express 6 problems

  I was very tired last night after too much study and went to do my math all day, when I clicked on a link or button that lost me my answer 'send' 'delete' etc. icons on Outlook Express 6 - What should I do now? This will waste time! At soon Jewelsisagem

  Right-click on an open under the title bar, and then select toolbar. That should bring back all of your icons.

  SC Tom

• In Outlook Express how can I change the spell check language?.

  He's trying to correct all the words in the body of the e-mail. Word choice are in another language. I know it's probably a stupid quick fix, but I CAN'T understand!  Please advise!

  Thank you

  Rachel

  He checks in French.

  You no longer have the correction spell checking capabilities in some languages in Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the Microsoft Office 2007 or Office 2010 system
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932974

  Outlook Express cannot use the check spelling of MS Word in Office 2007 or newer. A free spell-checking the download is the easiest way to get around this.

  Vampirefo spell check.

  Download from Major Geeks:
  http://www.MajorGeeks.com/download.php?Det=2952

  Or upload it to SnapFile:
  http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/spelloe.html

  You wanted TinySpell or. (Check spelling while typing).

  Download it here:
  http://www.tinyspell.M6.NET/

  Australian English spell checking
  (Also suitable for other English speaking countries).
  http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oespellcheck/

  If you have an earlier version of Office, see this:
  http://www.Outlook-tips.NET/archives/2006/20061228.htm

• "Spelling" tab is grayed out in Outlook Express how to activate this tab

  "I can't access the"Spelling"tab in Outlook Express, it is grayed out... no solution to this problem"

  OE 6 doesn't come with it's own spellcheck. You need to Word or MS Office program, before 2007. The spell checker in Works 4 to 6 will work with OE, but not other editions. If you do not have such a program, you can download a free spell check to one of these sites.

  Vampirefo spell check.

  Download from Major Geeks:
  http://www.MajorGeeks.com/download.php?Det=2952

  Or upload it to SnapFile:
  http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/spelloe.html

  You wanted TinySpell or. (Check spelling while typing).

  Download it here:
  http://www.tinyspell.M6.NET/