Mail cannot open message, not enough memory

I received this error message just now, used the Task Manager to close the
program and restared it with no problems. Mail opened the message it
couldn't moments before. I have 2 gigs of ram, 320 gig hard drive, nVidia
7300 video card. Is there a setting I can adjust to alocate more memory to
the my mail program? I have less than three hundred messages in all
folders, including deleted and sent. Is it a memory problem or something
else?

/Pumpkin/ said:

> I received this error message just now, used the Task Manager to close the
> program and restared it with no problems. Mail opened the message it
> couldn't moments before. I have 2 gigs of ram, 320 gig hard drive, nVidia
> 7300 video card. Is there a setting I can adjust to alocate more memory to
> the my mail program? I have less than three hundred messages in all
> folders, including deleted and sent. Is it a memory problem or something
> else?

Things to try...
TOOLS menu|OPTIONS|ADVANCED tab|MAINTENANCE button

See "compacting" to every 5 or 10 runs.
Review the clean up and deleting options.

See HELP & SUPPORT for related info.

"dev" <dev@null.invallid> wrote in message
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> /Pumpkin/ said:
>
>> I received this error message just now, used the Task Manager to close
>> the
>> program and restared it with no problems. Mail opened the message it
>> couldn't moments before. I have 2 gigs of ram, 320 gig hard drive,
>> nVidia
>> 7300 video card. Is there a setting I can adjust to alocate more memory
>> to
>> the my mail program? I have less than three hundred messages in all
>> folders, including deleted and sent. Is it a memory problem or something
>> else?
>
> Things to try...
> TOOLS menu|OPTIONS|ADVANCED tab|MAINTENANCE button
>
> See "compacting" to every 5 or 10 runs.
> Review the clean up and deleting options.
>
> See HELP & SUPPORT for related info.

Hi Dev, thank you for the reply. I just did remove all messages and
headers, Mail says my database is 118 mb, is that a lot? It didn't go down
when I cleaned it up.

I will read the help and support right away.

"Pumpkin" <cataloupemelon@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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>
> "dev" <dev@null.invallid> wrote in message
> news:OMfmbdsXHHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> /Pumpkin/ said:
>>
>>> I received this error message just now, used the Task Manager to close
>>> the
>>> program and restared it with no problems. Mail opened the message it
>>> couldn't moments before. I have 2 gigs of ram, 320 gig hard drive,
>>> nVidia
>>> 7300 video card. Is there a setting I can adjust to alocate more memory
>>> to
>>> the my mail program? I have less than three hundred messages in all
>>> folders, including deleted and sent. Is it a memory problem or
>>> something
>>> else?
>>
>> Things to try...
>> TOOLS menu|OPTIONS|ADVANCED tab|MAINTENANCE button
>>
>> See "compacting" to every 5 or 10 runs.
>> Review the clean up and deleting options.
>>
>> See HELP & SUPPORT for related info.
>
> Hi Dev, thank you for the reply. I just did remove all messages and
> headers, Mail says my database is 118 mb, is that a lot? It didn't go
> down when I cleaned it up.
>
> I will read the help and support right away.

Well, help sucks.
>

That's a default error message that is totally bogus.

If you are still having the problem, you can try my WMUtil program to
compact and if needed, repair the database. See www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/

If that doesn't help, then post back.

steve

"Pumpkin" <cataloupemelon@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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>I received this error message just now, used the Task Manager to close the
>program and restared it with no problems. Mail opened the message it
>couldn't moments before. I have 2 gigs of ram, 320 gig hard drive, nVidia
>7300 video card. Is there a setting I can adjust to alocate more memory to
>the my mail program? I have less than three hundred messages in all
>folders, including deleted and sent. Is it a memory problem or something
>else?