When attempting to attach compressed photos to a new email in Hotmail the following message appears: “Internet Explorer has blocked this site from using an ActiveX control in an unsafe manner. As a result, this page might not display correctly”. Therefore I cannot attach photos unless they are standard (non-compressed) files which are significantly larger than the compressed files. How can I get around this problem? (more…)

Recently I purchased a new computer running Windows 7 (64-bit) with Microsoft Office 2010 and would like to migrate across the email from my old computer. I was using Outlook Express on the old computer and have copied all of the .DBX files onto an external hard drive which is connected to the new computer. However, I cannot understand how to import the email into Outlook 2010. A search of the internet brought up many results, but often just other users with the same issue but no fix. Can you help? (more…)

Recently I had to reinstall Windows XP on my computer so I backed-up all of my data (favorites, documents and Outlook Express) onto an external hard drive. Restoring the favorites and documents was easy and did not present a problem. However, I am unable to read anything from Outlook Express as I cannot open the DBX files using any programs. (more…)

Recently when sending emails to various addresses I received a bounce message with the following text - “Listed on Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL). Host said: 554 Service unavailable; Client host blocked using Barracuda Reputation”. This almost seems like there is an Australia-wide spam filter problem, since several of the bounced messages were sent to .gov.au addresses. Can you suggest why this is happening? (more…)

I like to save received and sent email messages (including address details) in Word document (DOC) format. Unfortunately the “File” menu > “Save” option in Outlook Express 6 does not offer this file format. As a workaround, I need to save the email as a text (.txt) file and then cut and paste the content into a DOC file. This requires two separate procedures, which is quite cumbersome. Is there an easier way? The computer is running Windows XP. (more…)