Hi - for the past few days I have had a problem that Outlook doesn't write sent emails to the sent folder.

I think that it has something to do with the fact that I had accidentally reset my computer date to 28th March - but I have corrected this and it still wont save sent emails to the sent folder - Help please

Go to Tools, then options, then in mail or sent there will be an option box to tick.
Save copy of message in sent items folder.

[Edited on 2/3/09 by Thinking about it]

Also it could be that the files themselfs have become corrupt or have become too big, there is a 2GB limit on the outlook express and outlook upto xp.

outlook will also stop you recieveing mail, outlook express will still allow incoming.

in outlook create a new folder called Old send items and dump as much as you con from the sent items as you can, this should fix it. if you are sill haveing problem create a new outlook express profile and import you old one.

if it's outlook that has the problem then there is a tool you can get from MS that will check out the PST file were the e-mails are stores.

Dump OE and get Thunderbird... if you're not synchronising loads of gadgets.

ThUnDeRbIrD

Steve

Yep proll to many emails in one folder Outlook dosen't play ball over ceratain limmits.

Would agree about switching to Thunderbird --- which unlike Outlook and Outlook Express has a good free backup tool available Mozbackup.
Installing and using Thunderbird is absolutely painless --- really easy.

Links

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Nothing to do with the original question but
more generally Windows doesn't like it if you have two many files in one folder it slows to a crawl --- today I am having to rescue files from a computers that has 2,000 jpeg files in one folder.

Thanks for the feedback - none of my folders have many emails in them as I archive regularly - the whole PSR is 600MB.

Have decided to email with my Laptop until I sort out the problem

Will try Thunderbird when I have more time - looks good.

[Edited on 2/3/09 by Ivan]

Found out what problem is - just don't know how to cure it.

When I exported the XP Outlook .pst file to Vista Outlook hey presto the missing emails appeared in the "Sent" folder as having been sent three weeks in the future - shades of MJ Fox.

It seems the XP Outlook clock hasn't updated to match machine time - now how do I fix that????