pete said:
Hi all. I know its old but we can't all afford all things new. Outlook
express 6 has decided to get an email I was trying to send....
How is this an issue with Outlook, the topic of this newsgroup? Outlook
Express is a totally different e-mail client. Also, review your posts
before submitting them. You want someone ELSE to understand what you
mean to say.
OE has "decided" ...
How does OE decide anything? Just what does that mean?
.... "to get an email I was trying to send".
Huh? Just what really happened? Are you getting copies of e-mails that
you send? Are they local copies simply copied into a folder inside of
OE, or are they actually sent to your mail server which then sends you
back a copy?
If it is in the Outbox after a mail poll, OE got an error and could not
send that e-mail. So there would be no "get an email you were trying to
send" problem. There would be an error message about OE's error in
trying to send that item sitting in the Outbox (probably because it is
too huge for the quotas established for your personal-use e-mail
account).
Each time i try to open it in the out box to delete it...
What the hell is with all the "..."? Don't write like you aspirate
while speaking. Don't write like you talk. Writing is a different art
form than speaking. You learn to speak first by imitation because it is
easier. You have to learn writing and then practice it.
Outlook express-6 goes into 'non responding' and I have to close it down.
That's what can happen when you send overly huge e-mails. One, you
might have an anti-virus program that is scanning your outbound e-mails.
The bigger the e-mail (because you tacked on huge attachments), the
longer it takes for the AV program to interrogate all that content.
Disable e-mail scanning (inbound and outbound) in your AV program. It
is superfluous. It adds no further protection over the on-access
(real-time) scanner and can cause delays in receiving or sending e-mails
which cause timeouts. Second, your peronal-use e-mail account probably
has quotas to prevent abuse, like the max size for e-mails sent and
received to your e-mail account. You probably exceeded that size.
When you attach files onto e-mails, they have to get encoded into a long
text string. ALL e-mails gets sent as text. All of them. That means
attachments must get encoded into text and that bloats their size by
137%, or more (often a lot more). When composing an e-mail, save a
draft copy occasionally and go look at the size of the draft copy to see
how large is your e-mail that you intend to send.
I have rebooted 7 times already. .............
And more "..." nonsense.
The problem isn't going away because the item is still too big to send
through your personal-use e-mail account. Delete the item in the Outbox
folder. It you cannot delete it, exit OE and delete the outbox.dbx
file. OE will recreate this database file when you next run it.
now ready to give computer away altogether!
Unfortunately a lot of schools no longer accept used computers. Some
churches still do. Some tips here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=+donate++computer
E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
interrogate their content.
Stop using e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could
render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
(i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
not want. Stop being rude. Take the large file out of the e-mail.
Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the
file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
when to download your large file. Be polite.
Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
methods (of using online storage), all free, are:
http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
http://www.rapidupload.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage
service, remember to encrypt it.
