Message is no longer available on the server

[Lanny Bender]

What's going on? I'm getting the subject message when I click on messages
dated 10/03/03. See below:
"
Message is no longer available on the server
Outlook Express is unable to retrieve the requested message because the
server no longer has the message available.




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a.. News servers regularly expire articles as they get older to make space
available for newer articles.
b.. IMAP servers can be accessed by multiple e-mail programs at the same
time. If you are using two programs to access your mail the list of messages
maybe out of date. Use the refresh command to update this list.



Outlook Express"

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I also get this! Seems to be a problem in OE 6. I have to "Reset local
files" in order to get the messages to work.

Y.

 

[Lorne Smith]

MS have been having problems with their server lately... Seems OK now so try
resetting the newsgroup & redownloading the headers...

 

[rory]

Lanny, when you see this happen once, do not click on another recent (within
5 hours) post, as the whole lot of them are inaccessible, but will return
after a time. To "test" whether self-deletion is going to happen, click on
an unread post you do not mind losing. This is Day 7.5 of this situation.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I also get this! Seems to be a problem in OE 6. I have to "Reset local
files" in order to get the messages to work.

No, it's a problem with MS's own ((ms)news.microsoft.com) news
server(s). If you access the group via your own ISP's news server, or
via Google, or whatever, the problem should not appear.