IE4/OE4 tricks and tips

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IE4/OE Tips n' Tricks
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NEW Issue:

Composing a new message gives the following error:

The Address Book failed to load. Outlook Express is incorrectly configured, please reinstall

followed by the the following error:

This note cannot be displayed due to an initialzation error.

Solution:

Wab32.dll is missing or corrupted...or not located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\System

NEW Issue:

You received the MSN 2.5 CD, converted mail to POP3/SMTP and gets either one of the following error messages in OE while receiving mail.

1. "Unable to logon to the server using Distributed Password Athentication Account"pop3.email.msn.com, Server pop3.email.msn.com"Protocol:POP3,Server Response:"ERR Permission denied",Port 110, Secure(SSL):No. Server Error"

2. Error 501 "Unknown TCPIP error"

Solution:

Go into network properties, TCP/IP-adapter properties, WINS configuration, and change "Use DHCP for WINS Resolution" to "Disable WINS Resolution"

NEW Issue:

Opening OE gives the "browse for folder" window and hangs

Solution:

Manually add the Store Root directory into the registry.

Open Regedit, and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express

In the right hand pane look for the value "Store Root". If it's not there, right-click on a blank space in the right-hand pane, click New, String Value, and type "Store Root" without quotes. Right-click on Store Root and Modify, then enter the complete path to the folder you want OE to use.

The default path is: C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express

Close Regedit and try re-installing OE.

Issue:   Digital ID error message: "This message is not cached. Please connect to server to download the message"

Solution: The sender is having a problem with their ID. Possibly an expired ID

Issue:   Dead HTML links in OE

Solution:   Go to file types and edit "URL: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol" , change the 8.3 syntax to LFN

Example: before - c:\progra~1\inter~1\ieplore.exe

               after - c:\program files\internet explorer\ieplore.exe

Issue: How to get word-wrapping in OE?

Solution: There is no "smartwraping" in OE, use MIME/Quoted Printable as a workaround

Issue: "Unknown error 0x80004005" when receiving mail in OE

Solution:   Delete the "Pop3uidl.dat", this file contains info on what files on the server should be downloaded.

Issue: "WnetGetUser error"

Solution:    Added the client for MS networks, add computername and workgroup (no spaces or invalid characters)

Issue: "An Internal error with Windows Internet Extensions" or "Wininet.dll error"

Solution:    Make sure there's only one wsock32.dll in windows\system and one winsock.dll in windows folder. Also uninstall/reinstall of TCP/IP if there are no multiple wsock files.

Issue: "You do not have a digital ID in the addess book"

Solution: Clear out the "reply address" field under properties, general. Also uncheck, "Include myself when sending encrypted mail"

Issue: URLs in OE stop at "&" or blank

Solution: Known issue being addressed. Workaround: use HTML format. Simply highlight a group of words, then click the Insert URL button. Then the entire URL is contained in the hyperlink.

Issue: Spell-checker is greyed out in OE

Solution: Locate mssp2_en.lex, mssp232.dll and custom.dic on your hard drive (note that you may have two custom.dic files). Make sure all three are in the same folder, usually C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof folder. Also, if for some reason mssp232.dll or mssp2_en.lex are not in that folder, make sure that you copy them to that location or custom.dic can be copied to their location.

LAST UPDATED 22 May 2006 04:57:47 +0200

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