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Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I am
struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.

Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.

Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.

Last message yesterday 22.31
Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.

All suggestions to eliminate these black holes in my posts, gratefully
recieved

Guy

/Guy Thomas/ said:

> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I am
> struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>
> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>
> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>
> Last message yesterday 22.31
> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.

Could be the fault of the server. Anomalies are often seen here with
the MS servers.

http://mozilla.org is a source for Thunderbird, a nice FREE mail/news
client.

Hi,

Tools/Options, click on the Read tab and uncheck the line that restricts the
number of newsheaders you get at a single instance.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Guy Thomas" <guy@computerperformance.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I am
> struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>
> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>
> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>
> Last message yesterday 22.31
> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>
> All suggestions to eliminate these black holes in my posts, gratefully
> recieved
>
> Guy
>

"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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> /Guy Thomas/ said:
>
>> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I
>> am
>> struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>>
>> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>>
>> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>>
>> Last message yesterday 22.31
>> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
>> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>
> Could be the fault of the server. Anomalies are often seen here with
> the MS servers.
>
> http://mozilla.org is a source for Thunderbird, a nice FREE mail/news
> client.


Thunderbird will be great once it includes a combine and decode function.

40tude
XanaNews
MicroPlanet Gravity

--

Mike Matheny


"Guy Thomas" <guy@computerperformance.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%2323DyfMgHHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I am
> struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>
> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>
> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>
> Last message yesterday 22.31
> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>
> All suggestions to eliminate these black holes in my posts, gratefully
> recieved
>
> Guy
>

Dear Rick

You are right on the money - that is the answer to my Outlook Express
problem

Guy

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23WtjreNgHHA.3412@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Tools/Options, click on the Read tab and uncheck the line that restricts
> the number of newsheaders you get at a single instance.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Guy Thomas" <guy@computerperformance.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%2323DyfMgHHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I
>> am struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>>
>> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>>
>> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>>
>> Last message yesterday 22.31
>> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
>> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>>
>> All suggestions to eliminate these black holes in my posts, gratefully
>> recieved
>>
>> Guy
>>
>

Dear Dev

Following your recommendation, I have now tried Thunderbird and I am
impressed.

"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
news:eTVKRyMgHHA.2332@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> /Guy Thomas/ said:
>
>> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I
>> am
>> struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>>
>> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>>
>> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>>
>> Last message yesterday 22.31
>> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
>> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>
> Could be the fault of the server. Anomalies are often seen here with
> the MS servers.
>
> http://mozilla.org is a source for Thunderbird, a nice FREE mail/news
> client.

"Guy Thomas" <guy@computerperformance.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%2323DyfMgHHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however, I am
> struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>
> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>
> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>
> Last message yesterday 22.31
> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>
> All suggestions to eliminate these black holes in my posts, gratefully
> recieved
>
> Guy


Hi Guy,

This article specifically address missing posts using Outlook, Outlook
Express or MS Mail.
http://www.mindspring.com/~anorton1/Post_Mystery.html

This article addresses the same issue for MS Mail users and Microsoft
Communities
http://www.mindspring.com/~anorton1/...Revisited.html

The first article should help you understand what happened in your case.
--
Alan Norton
Reviews of ABIT AN8 SLI, ECS P965T-A & Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H MBs
Vista Confusion, Missing Posts Mysteries & Playing the Rebate Game Articles
Arizona Pics and Cute Animal Pics
http://www.mindspring.com/~anorton1/

I've been using Virtual Access from early Compuserve days. It runs fins
under VISTA and now I'm using the Open Source version VAOS that is
being developed further.

It's wonderful being able to download a couple of thousand messages in
a minute or so and scan/read at leisure.

Since VAOS/VA do not depend on the Registry (unless you want to make
them the default mail reader which I do not) it will even run from a
thumbdrive, although a bit more slowly, and on my dual boot version I
can read and operate the VAOS installed on my VISTA drive when booted
up into XP on another drive <g>

It now deals with text or with HTML messages.

It's still a beta application but it's making progress and is very
useable even in the version I have.

http://www.virtual-access.org/support/downloads.shtml

"Guy Thomas" <guy@computerperformance.co.uk> squirted these wordjisms
deep inside the bumtube of the news**** in
news:#23DyfMgHHA.1980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

> Where ever possible I like to stick with Microsoft Products, however,
> I am struggling with Outlook Express as a Newsreader.
>
> Either I am missing a basic setting, or I need a different NewsReader.
>
> Problem: My Outlook Express does not update correctly.
>
> Last message yesterday 22.31
> Download / syncronize at 9:05 this morning first message 01:56
> Specific problem - missing 3 hours of posts.
>
> All suggestions to eliminate these black holes in my posts, gratefully
> recieved
>
> Guy
>
>

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