Outlook Express- be careful

Many small business-people, including lawyers, use OE as their e-mail software. Nothing wrong with that; I do, too.

However, OE is not suitable for holding hundreds of e-mail messages for record purposes. I have heard of horror stories of people losing years of valuable correspondence because OE has become corrupted, allegedly due to an inability to handle "huge" folders of old messages.

Er, I've just remembered: I myself am one of those people !

Two points:

1. If you, as you should, back up all your files, this disaster will not happen to you. (Or, rather, you will have a recovery option).

2. Be kind to your OE: Tidy up your folders regularly and move old messages to a separate storage area.