My user name is mary_mo. I don't see a size for the beap?? I don't wan't to blow it! I would love to trade or beap with you. I am interested in your: Candy Lily, 50 seeds - 25 trades Cosmos sunset, 25 seeds - 9 trades Cosmos daydream, 25 seeds - 1 trade Cosmos candystripe, 25 seeds - 3 trades Foxglove hardy fushia, about 1/8 tsp Marigold Disco Flame, at least 50 seeds Morning glory Emma's gift/Aomaraski, 2 1/2 inch flower 21, 15 seeds Morning glory star of yelta, 15 seeds - 15 trades Sunflower autumn beauty, 25 seeds Sunflower Solar eclipse, 10 seeds Morning glory, light blue with dark lavender star gets lavender tinge around noon, Picture/flower and becomes lavender in later afternoon Picture/flower Picture/flower Morning glory Burpee pink star Sunflower, yellow branching Zinnia thumbelina orange and pink mix only, 25 seeds I have crenshaw cantelope melon, evergreen white bunching onion, early summer squash. All heirloom, and lilac and trumpet vine shoots. Please let me know. My personal e mail is cadaverknee@hotmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you! MaryMo Mary Shaver 7651 West S Avenue Schoolcraft MI 49087

Sounds like you already have internet working but your mail settings are off a notch... Perhaps look here.. Open Outlook Express Click on the menu item Tools, then select Accounts Click on the Mail tab if not already selected. Highlight MSN which hopefully is marked default. Click on Properties button. Click on the tab for Connections Now you should see a drop down box, change it to say dial up modem or something similar as apparetnly its trying to use a Network Connection which the norm if you have a high speed connection like dsl or cable. Think you need that box to say use the dial up modem. Hopefully thats the simple fix.

Urlee...I do all that sort of stuff with my Outlook Express also....I have Outlook Express on one computer (and love it) and have Windows Live on the other and it's no fun at all... maybee, I am so sorry and sympathize with you as I felt horrible about WLM as you could tell at the start of this thread. Now I have to confess I like it as well (almost) as I do Outlook Express as I am finding (after learning) I can do the same as I do in OE. There are a few differences just done in a different way.

not2bright, I'm looking at the links you posted, but so far I've not found anything addressing this problem. I'll keep reading. Hi, Sorry for not being clear. I really don't know that much about it, but the info at the site I linked to suggested that when your deleted message store gets to be a large size (and you are asked if you want to compact) it can take quite a while for the compacting to complete. Perhaps this is what you were experiencing. "They" also suggest never stopping/interrupting the compacting process because of the possible corruption that can occur. So they say to manually compact more often. Perhaps trying again to compact (File > Folder > Compact All Folders) and just wait to see if the compacting process completes. And only then try to delete the ones in the Sent folder, after which do another compacting. Just a suggestion from an OE user/amateur. As for your initial concern (Does choosing the yes option on compacting messages when logging out of Outlook Express make the messages impossible to be deleted?) No, the opposite. It deletes them permanently and frees up the space previously occupied by the deleted emails. Here's another comment/tip or two from the OE newsgroup: Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE functioning well and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you don't. When you delete, or move messages, the space they had used remains until you compact. ***Never touch anything until the compacting is finished.*** ...... To keep things running smooth, and for faster compacting: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.