And if you keep using McAfee, your emails will get corrupted again.
Gary VanderMolen
"Steven Lichtman" <StevenLichtman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC245128-A877-4BAA-BFDA-6AD930A2610B@microsoft.com...
> I'm using McAfee, which does seem to be an issue.
>
> However, when I cleared out the folders in Windows Mail and tried the
> program again ... and only imported a handful of the old emails, it seems to
> be working fine, and has been for the last couple of days. So I'm thinking
> the problem was something corrupted in the old emails.
>
> Thanx,
> SBL
>
>
> "Steve Cochran" wrote:
>
>> See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 What are you using for antivirus software?
>> What other programs are running at startup?
>>
>> Search for *.eml and see if you can find the messages in that search.
>>
>> steve
>>
>> "Steven Lichtman" <Steven Lichtman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:53E7DA3D-4075-4EFE-8321-6C6FD97CC196@microsoft.com...
>> > Just bought a brand-new Dell, with Vista. Imported old emails and email
>> > folders from Outlook Express 6; worked perfectly (messages appeared in an
>> > "Imported Folders" heading). I then successfully moved messages from this
>> > Imported Folder to my Local Folder (messages from the Inbox in the
>> > Imported
>> > Folder were moved to the Inbox in the Local Folder, e.g.). Everything
>> > worked
>> > fine.
>> >
>> > I then sent out a test email message, to myself. At first the message
>> > just
>> > sat in my Outbox and would not send, but after a few minutes it sent. It
>> > immediately showed up in my Inbox (Local Folder). Thinking everything was
>> > fine, I shut down the program.
>> >
>> > The next time I tried to start Windows Mail, however, it hung for a few
>> > moments, and I got a "Not responding" error in the title bar. I shut the
>> > program down, and tried to run it again. It's running, but ...
>> >
>> > ... I cannot see any email headers in any of my folders.
>> >
>> > When I click on "Local Folders", I get a detailed listing of how many
>> > messages are in each folder. But I cannot see any of them. And I cannot
>> > send or receive email anymore, either.
>>