When I send a message from Express, which I have linked to my Hotmail account, the message will move to the Outbox and never leave. It will remain and send over and over again every so often. I have to manually delete it or move it to another folder. In addition, I am getting an error message when trying to delete items from the deleted items folder, basically saying, "There is an error and your messages cannot be deleted." Has anyone ever had this problem? Is there a way to uninstall Outlook Express 6 so that I can reinstall it? Or Is there a way to link Outlook 2000 with Hotmail so that I can bypass Outlook Express altogether? Thanks for the needed help.

I had a similar problem but mine happened when I edited messages in the outbox. The messages never got sent. The solution was 1) Make sure the messages are marked as unread (they are bold in the summary) 2) Do not go into the outbox. Stay in the inbox or some other directory. I don't know about Outlook 2000. I just had very bad experiences with it: it appears to perform operations sequentially and when syncing with a remote site, it takes ages. Some of the operations appear to be system modal. The Outlook 2000 areas of the screen stay grey until the operation is complete. You just cannot do anything when this is happening. As a result, I don't even install Outlook 2000: I only use Outlook Express. Anyway, I only use it for email: to use the PIM and scheduling stuff in a home environment to replace a calendar and a clock is putting too much dependency on a computer. You wouldn't be able to do anything if there was a power cut or if your machine went down.

its just hotmail servers? it happens

I have a wierd problem. Outlook express won't even start up on my xp machine. Never as since I installed xp. I Upgraded from 98 to xp, and suddenly I had outlook express 6. But no matter what, It always says it has to close and need to send an error report. Well, I did that and downloaded the patch for it but its the same problem still. I even let windows update do it thing and it downloaded a million updates and installed them. Everything works perfect except outlook express. Any ideas?

I am absolutely appalled by outlook express. It is INFURIATING. Every time I try to do anything with it I get mutliple error messages telling me that it is unable to connect to the server. It's microsoft's bloody server. They should rename the company "Microcrap".

Usual cases when the mail will not leave the Outbox (Hotmail or POP3), the Outbox.dbx file is corrupt. Move, not copy the messages from the Outbox that did not send to the Drafts folder. Close OE, then locate the Outbox.dbx file. Delete it and restart OE. The file is rebuilt automatically (empty but clean). Sometimes the Sent Items can also cause similar problems. Create a new mail folder in OE and name it Old Sent Items. Move the messages from the Sent Items to the Old Sent Items (for archiving since you don't want to archive any messages in the predefined OE mail folders, especially the Inbox). Delete the Sent Items.dbx file and restart OE. Outlook 2000 does not have the ability to use Hotmail but Outlook 2002 (XP) does.

hotmail servers will not allow u to delete messages unless u do it on hotmail's webmail. I can't seem to locate any of .dbx OE 6 files . I set the folder view option to show all files. Any suggestions??