I get to see a lot of errors in Outlook on a regular basis. Most of the errors come from users at the company where I work. Some of the errors come from the Asia offices where a majority of the computers are somehow lucky enough to get these errors.
So when I get an error message the first thing I do is Google search for the number, in this case it was 0×80042112 and I only found one website with that error number indexed on Google. Yahoo! was the same, just the one website. Live.com (Microsoft’s search) gave me the same website. Ask.com made my search into a mathematical equation.
Why then, am I on here giving you the error? Good question! The reason is that if someone else comes up with this error I hope that they can retrieve my posting and know how to fix the problem (I know you already knew that, you were just giving me a good lead-in).
In order to resolve the error I had to find out which email account was causing the problem:
remove that email account;
close Outlook:
re-open Outlook;
re-create the account;
close Outlook immediately (before the send/receive process commences);
start Outlook and everything should be fixed.
Are all those steps necessary you ask? Yes. I tried only removing an account then re-adding it, no success. I tried all the steps leading up to the steps I listed, but only had success of not getting that message once I completed all the steps.
Jun 4th, 2007 in 
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well i tried ur method for my gmail account, but it does not seem to work…outlook always tries to download a 8.9 MB message, fails at the end and gives the same error…can u please help me on this…
If you are having problems downloading a message that is too big (always a possibility) then you should change your email settings to download only the message header or to change your settings to only download xx kilobytes.
With GMail you are also able to log into your online account and review/delete the message (or move it into another location so that Outlook does not try to download it).
For more detailed information regarding the above, leave another message and I’ll make a post showing detailed information on how to correct the problem you are experiencing.
Thanks for reading!
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its very usefull
Thanks for publishing this…
I tried it but its not working. I even tried to use Outlook Express instead of Outlook 2007 but still nothing…
works now, I first didnt do it properly…
Thanks
after deleting and recreating the account did the emails got erased?
Sorry Miguel, your comment slipped through my attention.
The answer is no, no emails got erased. If you are worried about that, you can make a backup of your email database though. When in question, make a backup! If you need more detailed work, let me know and I’ll help you out with that.
I have tried this fix to the Outlook error 3 times without success.
Do you have any other ideas?
Thanks for your help.
What about downloading duplicate emails? I have around 3 GB of emails stored on my email server. Is there anyway of avoiding downloading all the emails which I already have downloaded on my PC?
The email program has a memory, it marks messages as READ that are on the server if they are currently unread in order to better track, but besides that it’s a program function.
Once the emails have downloaded once, they shouldn’t repeat unless you create a new email account (essentially starting over again for the email program).
Another option would to create a folder online and have a folder that isn’t the “INBOX”, which email programs will not attempt to download email messages from.
Thanks a lot dms… That worked like a charm.