Can't Delete Email in Outlook Express - Comments Page 2

Thanks for your advice on this matter we have been pulling our hair out for 3 days. The shift delete key worked. Thanks for your help guys.

Outlook express, windows 98se, wouldn't delete inbox message after several phishing email were received. Preview pane was activated. Deactivating preview pane and using shift+delete worked. Any suggestions how to fix OE 6.00.2800.1123 so that the delete key will work again?

Thanks you so much for clear clues. It happen to my user too. The file inbox.dbx grew up 2 GB. So I deleted some email first.

Thank you so much...the highlight shift delete tip saved my day with a message that was stuck and could not be deleted from the outbox in outlook. Very much appreciated!

One of my friends is having a similar problem. He uses Outlook Express on his computer with Exchange on a local server. When he deletes an email in OE, it disappears, but if he checks his email on Outlook Web Access, the email is still in his inbox.

Yes, shift+delete worked for me also. But this is a temporary solution. Does someone knows how we can fix it and get rid of it forever?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Try another email program with less quirks?

I have an email sitting in my outbox that will not send. It's a 13mb file, and I have regular Outlook 2003. None of the previously suggested options have worked for me. I tried the shift delete, turned off the reading pane, emptied the deleted items folder, disabled my antivirus and firewall, etc. I even tried the repair option with my original Office 2003 disk. When I tried the shift delete option, the error message that came up said that I could not delete this file because it was moved, already deleted, or access denied. But it's still sitting there in my outbox! Any ideas or help out there?

Thank you so much!! eternally grateful!!

I have tried to delete old e-mails from my outlook express 6. The mails are deleting, but the file size still shows the same old actual size. For example, total identity file size was 600MB, after deleting 300MB, still showing 600MB.
Kindly help to solve this problem.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Did you try compacting the mailbox folders? On the File menu, point to Folder, and then click Compact All Folders.

My problem is I can't delete using the right click delete I have to send it to another folder and then delete it and then it is gone and not sent to deleted items. Also I can't open links from emails anymore I have to copy them and paste them to IEx. What can I do to correct this?

EDITOR'S NOTE: What happens when you try to right-click delete? As for the link opening, I think that's a security setting. Poke around in the options and you should be able to turn it back on.