Sunday, June 24, 2007

How to prevent Outlook Express from automatically displaying messages

Not FreeBSD related at all of course, but oh well.. let's have it in my knowledge base. :)

An user called me with a problem - he couldn't delete a message from his Outlook Express, because it was too big, and his computer would simply crash when trying to open it. The solution was

1) turn off preview pane - View->Layout...->uncheck "Show preview pane"
2) better safe than sorry, perform a correct "Compact folders" procedure.

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