Outlook E-Mail

[Bob2102]

I have two items....
1. When using outlook for e-mail, when I eceive my e-mail it sometimes says that my e-mail is at the "High Water Mark" and states that I should delete some mail. Is there a way to expand in order to not get this message?
2. If the first question can't be answered, then if I switch to Outlook Express is there anyway to send the address book in Outlook to Outlook Express without having to print the address book then adding the names to Outlook Express by hand.?
Thanks

 

[goombawaho]

Are you in a corporate environment??? If so, you may be limited by how much the mail administrators allow for e-mail space. If not, the limit should only be your disk capacity. Take a look at your PST file and see how large it is. Maybe there is some corruption or very large messgage that has caused it bloat up. Also, you could archive some data to pull it out of your main mailbox.

You COULD move your address book over to Outlook Express, BUT OE is not as stable as Outlook in terms of it's database and you're more likely to lose mail due to corruption vs. Outlook so I wouldn't recommend that.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010920381033.aspx

 

[Bob2102]

I'm not in a corporate place this is my private computer. How can I look at the PST. Thanks

 

[goombawaho]

Take a look at this for the location.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291636

Tell us how large it is.

Then take a look at his for archiving/compacting information.

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/KIS/docs/outlook/archivebackup-2003.htm

Do both of them - archiving first.

 

[Bob2102]

Goombawaho...is that Italian? Anyway, I did what they showed me but when Ilooked I only had "Personal Folder files" and none was a .pst. They were all personal folders. Now what goomba. By the way I have a goomba named Frank. I'm Italian

 

[goombawaho]

That's not what it means - nothing Italian related. Long story.

Do a search for *.pst on your hard drive and those are what you were looking for (the personal file folder).

Maybe look in this folder but substitute your user name
C:\Documents and Settings\USESRNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

There should be an Outlook.PST and perhaps and Archive.PST

Were you able to run the archive and then a compact?? IF not, try to get a size before and after.

 

[Bob2102]

Thanks for the info. I will try this later as I have a meeting tonight. Sorry in answering late but I work sometimes during the day. Also again thanks for staying w/me