Outlook Express + McAfee AntiVirus = The Solution To Having Too Many E-Mails In Your Folders
After kind of scratching my head over what sort of bizarre behavior OE was having for me over the last month or so (occasionally folders would empty out, new message counts would be off, the “Welcome to Outlook Express!” message would reappear in my otherwise-empty Inbox), I discovered what’s going on.
Rrg. And, also, Arrgh.
And before I discovered it, I lost my Letters folder and one of my PBeM folders last night. Fortunately, I do e-mail backups with Express Assist (Good Dave! Biscuit for you!). Unfortunately, my last backup was 4 October. (Bad Dave! Only a stale biscuit!)
Thanks to the Reg article cited above, I’ve changed the settings (I hope) in McAfee that are causing this Evil. But, boy, am I irked.
This same thing just happened to me. I switched on the E-mail scanning feature of Mcafee anti-virus, thinking I was doing a good thing, only to find my inbox wiped out in OE. I tried to get it back using DbXtract. No luck. Needless to say I do not have the E-mail scanning feature of Mcafee on now, but what can I do to recover my e-mail? Is it gone forever? I’m just slightly pissed about this. Please advise!!
The mail is, I believe, still there (as I recall a year and a half later), but I’m not aware of a way to recreate the indices to point to it.
Short of having a backup (something I’m only sporadically good at), I don’t have a solution for you, I’m afraid.