Bruce, Thankyou for responding to my request. I think I finally have solved
the problem. To answer your question; show all messages was checked and
nothing else was checked and OE was closed when I deleted inbox.dbx. Ron
Summer asked in his reply if I have any message rules. I rechecked that and
saw that I had 2 message rules. One called the New Message rule was set per
intructions from my ISP the other one is called the MFN rule. I reread the
instructions from my ISP and it said that the MFN rule should not be set for
OE so I deleted that. I don't know how the MFN rule got set. OE was working
ok for sometime but then it started deleting my emails from my ISP and
showing there were no new messages to display in OE. I don't recall entering
the MFN rule myself. Since I deleted the MFN rule tonight OE seems to be
working ok again and I'm very happy about that. Thank you.
--
dennis


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

View | Current View. Is Show All Messages checked and nothing else? Was OE
closed when you deleted the Inbox? It must be.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"dennis" wrote in message
...
I have windows xp with service pack 2. I hope someone can help fix my
problem. When I check for email at my ISP and see there is mail to
download
to my computer and then go to Outlook Express, Outlook Express shows it is
checking for new messages but then says there are no new messages. If I
then
go back to my ISP mail it shows the messages that were there have been
deleted. Outlook Express is deleting my mail off my service provider but
showing I have no new messages in my inbox. I tried deleting "Inbox.dbx"
and
restarting Outlook Express but that did not solve the problem. I will
really
appreciate any suggestions you can give. Thanks,
--
dennis