Outlook 2003 Locked-up on receiving files

[Gerry Viator]

Hi all,

Using Outlook 2003 on Windows XP
All updates are applied!

my PST file is only 65 MB

I repaired Office, I'm using a brand new machine, 1 GB RAM, very fast
machine.

Just out of curosity I went to Intrenet access of my mail and it was fine.

I open Outlook and it hangs on receiving email. There is two emails from
family members that
also keep replicating in outlook when I first open it and Outlook starts to
receive emails. Thats when it locks-up.

There is a outlook task icon on the bottom right
that when I put my mouse over it says "Microsoft Office is Synchronizing
Folders". Outlook is totally locked up.

I have to close Outlook by clicking the red X in the top right cornor.

Please help
Gerry

 

[ME]

I have experienced the same problem a few times already. I couldn't find any
relation between the kind of messages I was receiving and Outlook 2003.
Also, I tried disabling my Antivirus (VirusScan Pro 8.0) and Outlook's spam
filter, but neither solved the problem. I never had this problem when using
Outlook 2002. Sometimes a full restart of my PC would make it work. Other
times, only logging into my e-mail account using webmail and deleting the
spam would make the problem go away.

 

[Gerry Viator]

I solved the problem by logging onto the email server through
internet and deleted the problem email. Sounds like the email
servers aren't doing things right!!

Gerry

 

[no]

Same problem here. Sometimes it works, sometimes it hangs during receive.
Searching all over for answers, nothing yet. Sending the error report 10+
times a day. No fix yet.

Also, if you apply rules you can copy passages out of the email but you
can't copy them into the rules window.

Outlook propellerheads at work, at usual. The MOST important MS program
doesn't work!!!
Waste of time, using Outlook 2003, in my opinion.
FCS

 

[Bob]

For me (and note Diane's example) the problem, I think, lies with the transfere coding of base64. The problem of hanging occurs whenever this type of email has a large photo in the message(hence the code that is shown in the content of Diane's message beyond the headers, the large box of letters). One must go to another email outlet and delete this type of email because it will not download and it locks up Outlook (2003 in my case). I am now being bombarded with spam campaigns at my site of about 600 plus each day and if a spam has base64 somewhere in the mix, it creates more time needed to reboot and then go to another online email server to delete the message with base64 before downloading into Outlook. Does MS know about this?

Bob

 

[Brian Tillman]

For me (and note Diane's example) the problem, I think, lies with the
transfere coding of base64.

I disagree. Outlook can decode BASE64.

 

[Bob]

Well, you can disagree all you want, but the fact is, base64, when it has a large photo, is always 100% the common factor whenever my emails lock up. It does not matter what spammer sent the message, or content, they always lock-up. The only base64 that doesn't are the ones that do not have photos. This has been my experience and also my host providers experience in having to deal with this problem for me. They would have to delete the email. I no longer let them know because I realized I can get the mail on the web and delete it myself. Twice today already. The problem is, once Outlook receives it, it stalls and usually I must reboot the computer at that point, because when I close Outlook, it will not reopen. I'm glad you are not having the problem with base64
Bob

 

[Bob]

Here is a base64 that locked in Outlook 2003 and had to be manually deleted from my webmail, then the rest of the spam came through. Perhaps someone could see another problem that might be happening? All base 64 with photos will lock up.

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