Messenging shows blank emails? Anybody seen this?

[steph280]

I had to do a hard reset last night after a corrupted software install caused system to behave strangely. Everything was fine after the reset, and I proceed to load all the usual softwares.

For some strange reason the Email messenging software wouldn't display any mail. It was working fine prior to the reboot. Now it would check and retrieve mail headers, but clicking on the header shows a blank screen. Also sending a new mail shows a blank screen. As if the text editor was wiped out.

Anybody seen this before? What is causing this problem?

Thanks.

[Menneisyys]

I had to do a hard reset last night after a corrupted software install caused system to behave strangely. Everything was fine after the reset, and I proceed to load all the usual softwares.

For some strange reason the Email messenging software wouldn't display any mail. It was working fine prior to the reboot. Now it would check and retrieve mail headers, but clicking on the header shows a blank screen. Also sending a new mail shows a blank screen. As if the text editor was wiped out.

Anybody seen this before? What is causing this problem?

Thanks.

This is a very common problem with Messaging. Check whether there're any files in \Windows\Messaging. Those are the mail bodies (see my description of the Messaging frtamework if interested.) If there're, how many are there? What are their size?

[steph280]

there are 28 files and an attachment directory, most 2-4k, and one of each 14k, 15k, 30k. I do have 24 headers shown in messenging window. The larger files are probably those headers that I tried to download the complete body. But still they wouldn't show in messenging.

What do I do with these files? Delete them?

Thanks again for the help.

[Bebbo]

I get this issue quite often as well as the messages being shown but if there is an attachment (Shown on main list as a paperclip) the attachment is not listed once opened. The only way I have solved both issues is to re-boot again, connect Messenger and THEN re-sync. Seems to work for some reason.

[Menneisyys]

there are 28 files and an attachment directory, most 2-4k, and one of each 14k, 15k, 30k. I do have 24 headers shown in messenging window. The larger files are probably those headers that I tried to download the complete body. But still they wouldn't show in messenging.

What do I do with these files? Delete them?

Thanks again for the help.

Strange none of these files are not displayed. In most cases, there're no files in \Messaging at all, which causes Messaging not to display anything.

Try removing your POP3 account and, after that, recreating it. Hope it helps.

[steph280]

Are these files with .mpb supposed to be associated with some program? It doesn't seem to know what program to open the file with. I was able to open the file with Word and see the content. But I was thinking maybe it's supposed to be associated with windows messenging?

Thanks again for the suggestions.

[steph280]

Ok problem solved. Used the clear function to wipe out all mails, and download everyting again from mail server. Everything showed up.

Thanks for all the helps!