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OLEXP: Cannot Open Message During Newsgroup Download

Article ID:168966
Last Review:October 9, 2003
Revision:2.0
This article was previously published under Q168966

SYMPTOMS

When you are downloading the messages in a newsgroup while displaying the message headers, if you try to open a message in the list, the message may not open and you may receive the following message:
Retrieving message ... 0%

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CAUSE

This behavior can occur for either of the following reasons:

You are downloading a large number of messages from a newsgroup you have not viewed recently.
You are downloading a large number of messages from a newsgroup over a slow connection to the news server.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, do not try to open a newsgroup message appearing in the header list until the header download is finished.

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STATUS

This behavior is by design.

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0

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Keywords: 
kbusage KB168966

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