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May 6, 2007 at 03:53 PM
maryklarson

Outlook Express – how to delete corrupted email in Inbox?

by maryklarson . Updated 19 years, 5 months ago

Hi there,

I’ve got an email in my Outlook Express Inbox that I cannot open, and cannot delete. When I attempt to do either, the application hangs indefinitely and ultimately crashes (or I must force it to crash by ending the msimn.exe process, as it consumes most all available RAM while it’s hanging).

Opening, moving, and deleting any other email in my Inbox works just fine.

Is there any background way I can delete that rogue email from my Inbox?

I realize that I need to move away from OE and jump on the Gmail bandwagon, but before doing that, I’d like to archive my OE emails, and I don’t think that will be successful while I’ve got this current issue. I suspect that it will cause the application to hang once it gets to that particular email, because even when I set up new email rules and attempt to apply them to my Inbox, the application hangs, again, I think because of that bad email.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

-Mary

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