Solution for Outlook Express "Out of Memory" error

[Mike O]

I've found that people who send me emails with large attachments 4-6MB tends to nearly fill the alloted hard disk space Outlook Express has reserved for email storage, the .dbx folders. If I try to receive more emails from my ISP and the quantity or size of those emails pushes
OE in excess of this limit (total includes cumulative MB quantities for all .dbx folders) then I get this error message.

“An attempt to allocate memory failed. The system is out of memory. Account: 'zzzzz', Server: 'xxx.xxxxx.xxx', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x8007000E”

What this means is that OE program is beyond its storage limits not necessarily your PC system.

I must eventually delete the emails with the large attachments before I can download more emails. As of this posting I have not found any info on how to expand OE's preset storage limitations which seems to be set at about 7 - 8 MB. I know for a fact I was unable to receive an email which contained a 12MB attachment. May have had some large sized emails stored at the time, but think the email itself was just too large.

Mike O

[EzyStvy]

I don't know if you'll consider this good news or bad news but my InBox.dbx file is 128 megs in size. I have another file called Family that is 110 megs ...and an OLDInbox that is 90 megs..

What this means is that OE program is beyond its storage limits not necessarily your PC system.

I would look on the web site for all ISP's involved and see what their stated MAX file size it. Many ISP's won't let you send attachments that exceed 1 meg.