Heres an odd one

[tpr]

Under the Local Folders pane, my Outbox folder appears to be empty as there
is nothing showing waiting to be sent. My email service was down for a
couple of minutes this morning and I had an email waiting to be sent. I
opened the Outbox folder and found a reply to a newsgroup post that I
thought had been sent. It's a 1KB plain text reply. When I tried to open
it to see what it was about an error message popped up stating "the message
could not be displayed, and the following reason:
"Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this
message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try
again."

Next I tried to delete the message and got a popup stating "An unknown error
has occurred". Another popup appears with a colored bar across it and the
words "Deleting messages" on it. There is a light shadow moving across the
bar which I guess is supposed to indicate some sort of action is happening.
Nothing happens though and I eventually just close the popup.

Next I tried to drag and drop it into the Deleted folder and again got a
popup stating "An unknown error has occurred" followed by another popup
stating "The selected message(s) could not be moved. An unknown error has
occurred"

What's up with the message? I can't open it, move it, send it or delete it.

I have the same problem in recieved mail. My system tells me that it is
corrupt. when closing the "not enough memory or space" page, I get a quick
glimpse of a dark background with a skull and crossbones. I also can not
delete this e-mail.

 

[mac]

Under the Local Folders pane, my Outbox folder appears to be empty as
there
is nothing showing waiting to be sent. My email service was down for a
couple of minutes this morning and I had an email waiting to be sent. I
opened the Outbox folder and found a reply to a newsgroup post that I
thought had been sent. It's a 1KB plain text reply. When I tried to open
it to see what it was about an error message popped up stating "the
message
could not be displayed, and the following reason:
"Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this
message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try
again."

Next I tried to delete the message and got a popup stating "An unknown
error
has occurred". Another popup appears with a colored bar across it and the
words "Deleting messages" on it. There is a light shadow moving across
the
bar which I guess is supposed to indicate some sort of action is
happening.
Nothing happens though and I eventually just close the popup.

Next I tried to drag and drop it into the Deleted folder and again got a
popup stating "An unknown error has occurred" followed by another popup
stating "The selected message(s) could not be moved. An unknown error has
occurred"

What's up with the message? I can't open it, move it, send it or delete
it.

I have the same problem in recieved mail. My system tells me that it is
corrupt. when closing the "not enough memory or space" page, I get a quick
glimpse of a dark background with a skull and crossbones. I also can not
delete this e-mail.

See:
Messages may be stuck in the Outbox when you use Windows Mail on a computer
that is running Windows Vista.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/941090

 

[Steve Cochran]

In addition to what the others indicated, you have a corrupt database and
you need to fix that. See www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/ and try compacting and
repairing the database and see if that takes care of some of the other
errors you are getting.

You should also upgrade to Vista SP1.

steve