Follow up on the Outlook problem.
Jan. 21st, 2004 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreAfter looking through files I discovered that my inbox, containing about 100 messages, was as large as my deleted box, which contained almost 3000 messages.
Conclusion, some e-mail was coming that is fucking huge and making Outlook freeze (mail was coming in, I just wasn't able to view it because the view window would never load and the program would freeze).
In the end I have saved a copy of the inbox in another folder and deleted it (saying bye bye - hopefully temporarily - to 100 useful e-mails that I never got to read). That worked, Outlook works normally again.
Now I just need a geek who somehow can manage to view the old e-mails on another computer or something and delete the offending spam so I can have my useful mail back again and actually read it.
Conclusion, some e-mail was coming that is fucking huge and making Outlook freeze (mail was coming in, I just wasn't able to view it because the view window would never load and the program would freeze).
In the end I have saved a copy of the inbox in another folder and deleted it (saying bye bye - hopefully temporarily - to 100 useful e-mails that I never got to read). That worked, Outlook works normally again.
Now I just need a geek who somehow can manage to view the old e-mails on another computer or something and delete the offending spam so I can have my useful mail back again and actually read it.
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Date: 2004-01-21 07:05 am (UTC)Most isps let you access your inbox from their webpage, so you can look directly at the email's on the web, and delete them before any program (ie, outlook) deletes them.