Emails missing from Inbox of Outlook Express 6

Outlook Express 6 compacted my email messages last night, however when I
opened it this morning all messages (approximately 400) after 11/09/2007 are
missing from my Inbox. All other folders seem fine and new messages also
appear.

Two things:

1. One should not store messages in the Inbox or Sent Items or you will,
as you have seen, lose messages.

2. Dump Outhouse Distress and get a real email program like Thunderbird.
You can get it at http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird. It will, if you so
desire, import all your email from Outhouse Distress. It has an
excellent junk filter and real time spell check. To back up T-Bird, all
you have to do is copy the identity in the Profile folder and you will
have backed up all your messages, rules and email accounts. You can also
get a plug in that will give you a calendar.

Outlook Express isn't part of the Office suite of application, but comes
with Internet Explorer. Perhaps post your query there for answers. Link
attached.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US

I have exactly the same problem. Suddenly all emails from the inbox (OE
6 on XP) after mid 2008 vanished. Also if I send myself an email, it
says 1 email in Inbox, but when I look - its not there. This can be
repeated any number of times. Anybody got any ideas? - some of these
emails are important!! (By the way I couldn't getanything from that
link someone kindly suggested).

As OE is not part of Office, please post to an OE group and supply
details.

OE6 newsgroups.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...outlookexpress
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ess.stationery
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general

If you are using Outlook Express as your newsreader they should open.