I'm not sure about Point 10, which in brief, advises people to turn off their local desktop proxy mechanism (set up by various anti-virus programs) as a relief from .dbx corruption or email transport problems. He says to rely on the fact that OE will save the attachment to Windows Temp before before the file is launched. This assumption is not always valid. The user can click on nasty urls (for example) which are not saved to disk first.

Instead of resolving the incompatibility between the AV and OE, he wants to discard the AV functionality. I'd prefer to discard OE and let the AV filter out the malware, virii, phishing (if at all) before the user is social engineered into touching the email body.

Why bother mucking about with an inferior email programme? Mozilla Thunderbird is far superior.

Quite right, Robert. There's no accounting for tastes. Thunderbird is Bleeding Edge's preferred email client, and we advise everybody to try it out. But the fact remains, more people use Outlook Express.

What's a TypeKey identity ?

How or what is the easiest way to get your address book on to your host address or to a hotmail address?from outlook using XP
Pete

Well, I think you should always have up to date email backups. I used to do it manually by saving the .dbx files, until I found http://www.amicutilities.com/outlook-express-backup/ - Outlook Express Backup Genie that does it automatically at regular times.

I choused it over other because it can work with both MS Outlook and Outlook Express

Alicia