Compacting did the trick on the sending issue, thanks.

Any idea on what's causing the error message window to be blank?

Maggie


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:OLBMS$E7JHA.6004@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> [Added crosspost to OE General newsgroup]
>
> Your current Identity may be damaged, especially if its the default Main
> Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named Identity...
>
> File | Identities | Add new identity
>
> Assuming all is well, (1) compact all folders in the old identity, (2)
> import messages from the old identity into the new one, and then (3)
> delete the old one (File | Identities | Manage Identities).
>
> To avoid such corruption in future:
>
> - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
> folders created for this purpose.
>
> - Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
>
> - Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
> offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
>
> - Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt
> to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic
> Compacting is taking place.
>
> - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
> corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection:
>
> Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
> http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
>
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>
>
>> crossposted to the OE newsgroup
>>
>>
>> "mag" <the1mag@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:h10kkh$ai1$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>> Sorry ift this is the wrong newsgroup but I can't find one for OE
>>>
>>> Using IE6,OE6 on XPPro with SP3.
>>>
>>> I'm having difficulty sending email from a new laptop which I'm working
>>> on,but my question here is that the window that's supposed to show the
>>> error message is blank. Is there a fix for this?
>>>
>>> Any other info needed?
>