For the past month or so I have been putting up with what I think are corrupted files within OutLook Express running Windows 2000 Pro. The source of this corruption is my ISP's virus, spy, firewall, along with pop-up blocker etc. package, called FREEDOM. Not a bad package but definitely aggressive. I arrived at this conclusion after talking to my ISP and studying the NET.
.... What takes place is this, I send an E-mail and at the end of that transmission, I receive an OutLook error window which states “Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. Please review the list of errors below for more details.” When you look below there are NO errors listed. Now, during this transmission, the E-mail was passed to the folder “Outbox” and transmitted from there but when the transmission is completed it is NOT removed, just stays there. If I leave it there and send another E-mail the same process takes place as when I sent the first E-mail but this time both E-mails are transmitted, sending the first E-mail a second time. And if I do not remove these E-mails from the folder “Outbox” they will be transmitted again with the next sent E-mail.
.... Because of the corruption, I generated an additional (named) folder and transferred each E-mail after transmission from the folder “Outbox” to the additional (named) folder and limped along until I had time to study this situation.
.... What I have tried and have been unsuccessful with this so far, I ran sfc /scannow which checked all my protected files, this did NOT resolve the issue. I proceeded to reinstall both OutLook Express and Internet Explorer through regedit per Microsoft KB, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;318378 . This still did not resolve the issue. This particular KB 318378 was recommended for this task in W2k Pro even though it was written for XP.
.... So, if anyone can shed some light on this or come up with good thoughts at this point they sure would be well appreciated
Thanks,kvarnerexpress

Well Buddy! In this situation I can suggest you that please try to remove the email scanning from the package you just told us about...and try it after that...if still it fails then try to disable the firewall...which i think wont be a problem in your case...I think more or less it will be the email scanning feature of the anti-virus which creates the problem...I am in a technical support and I get lots of issues like this and once we disable the anti-virus email scanning feature or in other cases it is the firewall which is the culprit....and as soon as they are disabled the emails start working properly...what I can suggest you is that try to USE THUNDERBIRD and hopefully you wont find a problem with that..not only..it is light it has a better spam protection and can keep you safe from SPAM...and as far as email's containing viruses are concerned then scan with antivirus before opening any attachment from any source who is unknown.