how to get Outlook Express to continue after failing to read a newsgroup message

Question

I use outlook express as a newsreader. Sometimes I want to get the entire server holdings of a particular newsgroup. Trouble is, OE seems to snag when it was able to read a message headr but for some reason it can't retrieve the body. It snags with

Outlook Express could not download the requested message. It is likely that the message
was removed or expired from the server.  Subject 'Simple security??', Account:
'news.nevrona.com', Server: 'news.nevrona.com', Protocol: NNTP, Port: 119, Secure(SSL):
No, Error Number: 0x800C006F

and the only option you have is to stop. Any messages after that one you can't retrieve.

Has anybody seen this problem? Or can suggest a better newsreader? (tried Gravity, found it hard to use.)

Answer 1

The only way I found is to:

• download all the headers from the server
• try to download all the messages
• note which note which message gives the error
• find the header corresponding to the message
• delete it from OE
• try to download all the messages again
• repeat with the next header that snags until finished.

When I did this there were only a few messages that needed to have their headers deleted before I was able to get the whole server contents.