Outlook express sent mail file

Any light you can shed on this would be very appreciated. It is now March So, check you calendar. My sent items is there but allthe items have disappeared and when I send e mail now nothing goes in there? How can I stop a message in my outlook outbox that wont send. After you see the Sent Items folder, in Outlook Express, how do you find a particular email that I sent on October 10, , for example. I know I sent it—I want to see it again. JoAnn You could search for it.

Or sort the items by date to find it. However is a long time ago. Very likely Outlook Express archived those long ago to save you on space. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam. All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication.

I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! I would appreciate your assistance regards Peter Reply. This happened after a power loss… Reply. But no Layout!

Leo: I too have followed your instructions and the last several emails that we have sent are not showing up in the sent item folder even though it has been checked Reply. I dont have a view layout menu can you please help Reply. I also dont have a copy of my mail since April 22, 09 in the out look already set up like above.

How can I find the sent Items in Outlook Express? I am using Windows XP home. This was driving me insane. How can I stop a message in my outlook outbox that wont send Reply.

I view the folder, sort it by date, and then scroll down to the date in question. Leave a reply: Before commenting please: Read the article. Comment on the article. No personal information. No spam. Sign up for the Confident Computing newsletter for weekly solutions to make your life easier. Click here and get The Ask Leo! It depends on what you want to do. Depending on that the answer is either yes, or not really. Become a Patron of Ask Leo! That will tell you the folder on your hard drive that contains your email folder.

Backup the entire contents of that folder. There are interrelationships that often confuse things if not set up just so on restoration. Speaking of restoration — the only way to reliably view the contents of what you just backed up will be to replace it in to the same place. The ideal solution, of course, would be to select multiple messages in your Sent Items folder and hit Save As…. Sadly, Outlook Express does not enable Save As… when you have more than one message selected, and I know of no other way to actually accomplish this with OE.

Thunderbird stores email as plain text files. You can even open it in notepad to view your email in plain text, or copy it back into your Thunderbird data store folder with a different name to view it within Thunderbird. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.

Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. After you send an email using Microsoft Outlook or later versions, a copy of the email message is not saved to the Sent Items folder. Archived Forums. Web Forms. Sign in to vote. User posted Hi All, Right now all my applications are using SMTP to send mails, but now my boss dnt want to send mail via SMTP, since we cant able to see the sent mails, etc and recommended me to use outlook express to send the mail.

I prefer in vb. Thanks in advance Tuesday, July 28, AM. Friday, July 31, AM. User posted here you can get it.. User posted Please check out the following link