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>Have you tried "compact all folders" yet within OE? That action
>remedied some strange behaviours for me.
Thanks for the suggestion Anne, but the problem lies within the
Address Book, not the dbx file containing e-mails. I know "Compact all
folders" recovers space occupied by "deleted" e-mails but I wasn't
aware that it touched the Address Book. My client could read and send
e-mails without problem but as soon as he clicked the Address Book
button, he got an error message saying the Address Book cannot be
loaded, etc. I'll get the corrupted Address Book (if I can undelete
it) and experiment.
I found a shareware program called Address Book Recovery that seemed
to do the trick, and wondered if there was a freeware equivalent.