Solved: Outlook express

While I have (big sigh!!!!) successfully figured out how to delete my INBOX messages in Outlook Express, I find that it is also deleting my INBOX in my Comcast Webmail.

Somehow, the 2 got linked. When I first bought my computer 4 years ago, the 2 entities were un-linked.

Anyone have any ideas how to delete messages from Outlook Express WITHOUT affecting my Comcast Webmail INBOX?

Thanking anyone in advance.

 

Outlook Express is like a mailman. It goes to the post office (webmail)
and brings the email to you (your computer). So, it should be at that
point in time that the email disappears from the Comcast site.

Deleting the emails on your computer shouldn't have any effect or
relation to the emails on a website.

Now, if you want to leave copies on the website:
OE->Tools->Accounts->Properties->Advance Tab.
Put a check mark where it says:
Leave a copy of message on server.

 

Thank you very much - it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

You're welcome

 

Hi Again -- Now that I can delete "all" Inbox Messages from my Outlook Express, thanks to the genuises at Tech Support, I am just wondering though, (hmmmm?) if my Outlook Express is somehow corrupted, in that, the "only" way I can erase messages from Outlook Express is by going through the exercise of running my DBX files. And I'm having to do this each time now. I can't complain cuz at least I can delete messages from the Outlook Express. Whew and what a relief I learned to do that through this website!

But absent having to go through the other DBX procedure, messages don't budge from Outlook Express Inbox, like when I first got my computer, I didn't have to do this exercise at all, the messages would just get deleted as I want.

But like I said, I am NOT complaining. I am just thankful they are getting erased.

Thank you very much.

 

Hi - The steps I am taking are by the one published by Throoper on your website -- Open OE/Tools/Options/Maintenance/Tab Store Folder. Copy the highlighted address (........ run DMX) and close OE and paste that address on to START/RUN.

Then all the OE6 boxes are displayed there and I just delete the boxes I want to delete. It was a fairly easy procedure and they are now all gone from Outlook Express.

Are they "really" being erased, I do not know. All I know is that I am just thankful that in one fell swoop, the messages are "visually" deleted from the OE6 boxes.

The only problem I am encountering now, is that when I'm on OE, I cannot delete messages "directly" from it. I have to use the "run DMX" file everytime I want to delete. But I least I no longer have 100 messages in the inbox that I'd wanting to get rid of for months.

Thank you. If you have any more questions, please ask. I would appreciate any help.

 

Hi again and thank you for responding.

However, I'm afraid you are asking for the impossible. I am a computer moron. I would not even know where to begin looking for a ".dbx directory."

But suffice to say that (for now), and as long as I can run the dbx file and erase all the messages at one time on OE6, I will be happy with that.

Thank you so much for your replies.

PS: Thankfully, my regular webmail is intact and with no problems. That is actually my default for e-mail that I receive from day to day.

OE6 is just my auxiliary.

 

Thank you very much.