Resolving Outlook Express error message “Outlook Express FolderSync Window Class: msimn.exe - Application will not start.”

All the e-mail applications have similar features. Mails that are received are saved in the Inbox and mails that are sent are seen in 'Sent Items' folder. But many times it happens that Outlook Express application make use of corrupt .dbx file. Any loss to Outbox.dbx, Inbox.dbx, or Sent Items.dbx file leads to corruption. If Outlook Express application gets corrupt you cannot perform mail operations related to it. All the mail-objects cannot be accessed or managed. To get rid of this situation, make use of a third party Outlook Express Repair tools. These tools Recover Outlook Express application and make it free from corruption.

Most of the times, when you try to open the Outlook Express application in your system, the application refuses to open. Instead of an Outlook Express Window, the following error message appears on the screen like this:

“Outlook Express FolderSync Window Class: msimn.exe - Application will not start.”

The above error message makes the application unapproachable for you. You cannot access unless the above error message has been resolved.

Cause:

The above error message is caused because of destroyed Outlook Express folders. Outlook Express folders may be Sent Items.dbx or Inbox.dbx, and Outbox.dbx.

Solution:

There is no inbuilt tool that Outlook itself provides you to solve the above issue. You can remove corrupt .dbx file from your system. Follow the below steps:

(1) Go to Start || Programs || Accessories || Windows Explorer.

(2) In Windows Explorer, Select Tools || Find || Files or Folders.

(3) Enter Outbox.dbx in the named box, and select Find Now.

(4) Rename the file by right-clicking it.

(5) Change the name of the file to Outbox.old.

(6) Start Outlook Express application again.

(7) After performing above steps if error messages are still received, repeat these steps again to remove Sent Items.dbx file and the Inbox.dbx file.

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How to Solve Unknown Error 0x800C013B when Sending Email after Compacting OE Folder?

Outlook Express folders can get corrupt for several reasons. Ironically, folders compaction that otherwise can remove mild corruption, can damage them too. Before Windows XP SP2, background compaction was the major reason of corrupting the folders, especially on slow computers. Though the feature has been removed, but still can bring corruption if is interrupted. You can recover such folders from backup or by using specific Outlook Express Recovery solutions.

To exemplify, consider an instance when you start Outlook Express. It prompts you to compact the folders. You click OK and the compaction process starts. After this, when you restart the application and try to send an email message, it fails and you receive the following error message:

“An unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800C013B.”

You cannot send the email message after this error, be it of any size or form.

Cause

The folder compaction process might have been interrupted when it was compacting the Sent Items.dbx folder. An interrupted compaction due to unexpected shutdown, power failure or closing Outlook Express can make the folders to corrupt. In this case, the error is resulting because Sent Items.dbx file is corrupted.

Solution

If you are running Windows XP SP2 or later, you can restore the Sent Items folder from its backup stored in Recycle Bin as .bak file. If not, you can recreate the corrupted Sent Items folder to workaround this issue. For this, you can rename the folder or simply delete if it contains no important emails. The next time when you will start Outlook Express, it will automatically create a new empty Sent Items folder. Follow this fix to do so:

1) Make sure that you enable the view for hidden files and folders.
2) Locate the Sent Items folder by using Windows Search option for files and folders and typing Sent Items.dbx in the Named box.
3) Right-click the folder so located and click to delete or rename to Sent Items.old.
4) Restart Outlook Express.

To repair the corrupted Sent Items folder, there is no OE provided tool. So, you need to rely on third-party Email Recovery solutions for this. These are absolute Outlook Express Recovery software that can repair and safely restore damaged OE folders, corrupted due to unexpected shutdown, improper compaction, virus infection and similar other reasons.

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How to Solve 0x800C013E Error in Outlook Express?

Each Outlook Express email folder that you see listed in Local Folders is stored with .dbx file extension on the hard disk, for example, Sent Items.dbx etc. All these folders are then collectively stored in Store Folder. Sometimes, DBX files might get damaged or corrupted for reasons like unexpected shutdown, antivirus scanning and others. If a suitable backup is available, you should restore from it or rename the damaged folders. The corrupted OE folders can be repaired using commercial Email Recovery solutions that are exclusively built to repair such OE folders.

To exemplify, consider you use Outlook Express as your email client to send and receive email messages. You might receive the similar error when trying to send an email message:

“Unknown error has occurred. protocol smtp, port 0, secure (SSL) NO, error number 0x800c013e
Account:'mail.yourdomain.com',
Server:'mail.yourdomain.com', Protocol POP3, Port:110, Secure (SSL): No,
Error Number 0x800C013E.”

You cannot send the message after you receive this error. Trying to reproduce the behavior with different sized emails doesn't help also.

The error can also appear when you try to access your email account or Inbox.

Cause

Error 0x800C013E can occur in these cases:

1) An antivirus application is scanning and interrupting with the way OE deals with email messages.
2) Mail server port number or email account issues.
3) Sent Items.dbx and/or Inbox.dbx is damaged.

Solution

You can solve the existing issue by using these measures:

1) Disable and uninstall the antivirus application scanning the OE mail folders.
2) Check for the correct port number as Tool | Accounts | Account Properties | Advanced.
3) Try to recreate your email account and see if this helps.
4) Locate and rename the corrupted OE mail folders (Inbox.dbx and/or Sent Items.dbx). Restart Outlook Express and new empty folders will be created.

Outlook Express doesn't provide any built-in utility to repair the damaged DBX files. So, to repair them and extract data from, you are recommended to use DBX Recovery solutions. These utilities serve as perfect Email Recovery products incorporating advanced scanning algorithms to diagnose and repair damaged OE files.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is a comprehensive mail recovery tool designed to repair corrupted DBX files created with Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. It is an advanced and read-only DBX Recovery software designed to use effective scanning algorithms. It can also repair *.eml messages that can be directly opened and viewed in Outlook Express.