Thanks Gerry. Ok, I understand that, and I do those things at times......but why is it when I open the outbox.dbx file in a text editor it is STILL showing these emails from 3 years ago? I *can* understand how the text from emails shows in that file, but only *temporarily*. I'm at a lost to understand why that file is still showing 3 yr. old emails even after dozens of reformats! -Clint
Happy Holidays to all & God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics-Sales.com http://CuringDisease.com http://Cloning-Research.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 03:51 AM 11/26/2002 -0600, OrpheusComputing.com wrote the following: >If mine gets "bloated", I'll try that. But I'm not that >concerned with the size problem. What gets me is how the >outbox.dbx file shows data (even though it's empty) and from >3 YEARS ago....and more so, email that I never sent! There are several different ways the outbox.dbx file get filled with messages that you never sent or appear to be multiple versions of the same thing. Eudora does some of the same things in their Out folder. You open an e-mail message in your Outbox before the e-mail message is sent. (I do this quite frequently in Eudora). Messages were opened from your Outbox. (Another thing I do often in Eudora, also see last item below). Work offline and have not made a remote connection. (And yet another one I do often in Eudora) Open and close an e-mail message while it is in your Outbox, the e-mail message may not be sent because you may have changed its status. If the status of the e-mail message has been changed, the title of the e-mail message no longer appears in italics. After sending an e-mail message, Outlook moves the e-mail message to your Outbox. When Outlook connects to your mail server, the e-mail message is delivered and a copy of the sent e-mail message appears in your Outbox. A common one that happens to me in Eudora in that I open an old sent message to resend with editing to a new location and I end up with a duplicate unsent one. I think the same thing happens in Outbox but I can't remember. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
