OL2002: Error Message When You Try to Copy Messages with Names Longer than 40-Characters

When you try to copy a message to a folder that has a name longer than 40-characters in length, you may receive the following error message:

This problem occurs because of the Hotmail server. Hotmail restricts the length of folder names to 30-characters or less. This restriction has only been observed with Hotmail folders and sub-folders of the Hotmail tree.

Use one of the following methods to work around the problem:

• Limit folder names to 30-characters or less.
• Click the Hotmail Inbox, click Tools, point to Send/Receive, and then click Update Folder List to synchronize the Folder list before you copy the items to a new folder.
• Create new Hotmail folders from the following Hotmail Web site:
  http://www.hotmail.com (http://www.hotmail.com)

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.