I suggest you upgrade to Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
"davextreme" <davextreme@xxxxxx> wrote in message news

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>I keep getting a Runtime Error when I get my mail. Not every time, but most
> of the time. It causes windows mail to shut down and when I restart it it
> redownloads the messages again. Sometimes it does it more than once causing
> me to have 3 or 4 copies of each message but I can't read them because it
> keeps shutting the program down. I restart the computer and then get my mail
> again and it is usually OK, but I would like to resolve the problem. I will
> copy and paste the error message below, if anyone has experienced this please
> let me know if it can be fixed.
>
> Runtime error!
> Program:C:\ProgramFiles\WindowsMail\WinMail.exe
>
> This application has requsted the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
> Please contact the applications support team for more information
>
> and it closes
>