To: Bruce & Bear
No Easy or acceptable Resolution for this issue

FYInfo _ I spent an hour on the phone with ATT Yahoo tech service. We
discovered the email I could not receive on OE 6 had been delivered to my
ATT Yahoo web mail account - not my choice for receiving email. Bottom
line, we concluded that my OExpress 6 has been corrupted. I could attempt a
reinstallation of W2K and perform a restore but that's just too much work &
no guarantee of success. There's just no way to easily uninstall/reinstall
OE 6 since it's such an integral part of IExplorer. I could buy Outlook as
a replacement - & maybe that's still an option. I downloaded Mozilla's
Thunderbird and imported OE files - still not a perfect remedy - but it's
free so I'll give it a trial for now.

Thank you both for your consideration.

Blithe

"Blithe" wrote in message
...
Thanks Bear -
I disabled Avast email scanning & noted the other suggestions.
Blithe

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
See if disabling Email Scanning by Avast clears up the problem (see
below).

Also see this recent & related conversation:


http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f7eef3f501480/

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline".
More
at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not
attempt
to
close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic
Compacting
is taking place.

- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional
protection,
and even Symantec says it's not necessary:

QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses
that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect
scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this.
To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you
have
the most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


Blithe wrote:
I xxx'd out my account name on the OExpress error I keep getting today
right
after I booted up. I Googled a fix for it applicable to OExpress 4 -
tried
it & it did not work.

OExpress error:
"An unknown error has occurred. xxxxxxxxx Protocol: POP3, Port: 995,
Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0x80004005"

I checked & verified that I am using the correct server settings for
my
Internet service provider.
When this error appeared some months ago I discovered my settings had
been
corrupted & resetting them fixed the issue. What now?