Question on Mail Stuck in InBox

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Have Win Vista and Windows Mail. Have messgae stuck in Inbox. Deleted InBox
folder in User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsMail. Reopen Mail and message
are still there. Look in InBox folder and all message are now gone, however.
Where is Mail really getting it's messages from? Thanks.
 
Yeah, but where is the mail, if I deleted the InBox folder, Mial recreated
the folder, and the old mail is still there?

Bruce Hagen said:
How to Remove a Stuck Undeletable Message in Windows Mail
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/62560-windows-mail-problems.html

WMUtil
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


John Lane said:
Have Win Vista and Windows Mail. Have messgae stuck in Inbox. Deleted
InBox
folder in User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsMail. Reopen Mail and
message
are still there. Look in InBox folder and all message are now gone,
however.
Where is Mail really getting it's messages from? Thanks.
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Huh? You don't delete the folder.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


John Lane said:
Yeah, but where is the mail, if I deleted the InBox folder, Mial recreated
the folder, and the old mail is still there?

Bruce Hagen said:
How to Remove a Stuck Undeletable Message in Windows Mail
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/62560-windows-mail-problems.html

WMUtil
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


John Lane said:
Have Win Vista and Windows Mail. Have messgae stuck in Inbox. Deleted
InBox
folder in User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsMail. Reopen Mail and
message
are still there. Look in InBox folder and all message are now gone,
however.
Where is Mail really getting it's messages from? Thanks.
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WM appears to still have the message in its Message store index file.
WindowsMail.MSMessageStore

Have your performed the 'Third' option in the link that Bruce provided ?

<qp>
Compact and Repair the Windows Mail Database
</qp>


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...winston
ms-mvp mail

John Lane said:
Yeah, but where is the mail, if I deleted the InBox folder, Mial recreated
the folder, and the old mail is still there?

Bruce Hagen said:
How to Remove a Stuck Undeletable Message in Windows Mail
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/62560-windows-mail-problems.html

WMUtil
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


John Lane said:
Have Win Vista and Windows Mail. Have messgae stuck in Inbox. Deleted
InBox
folder in User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsMail. Reopen Mail and
message
are still there. Look in InBox folder and all message are now gone,
however.
Where is Mail really getting it's messages from? Thanks.
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Make sure you have updated your version of Vista to Service Pack 2. That will fix issues with stuck messages. Then if you still have troubles, then compact and repair the database using my Windows Mail Utility (www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/) and see if that fixes things.

steve
 
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