After Live Mail decided it wanted to rebuild my email database, all the email messages now have a " or < in front of the TO: or FROM: name, which prevents me from sorting alphabetically and hitting "f" for instance. In this instance there were many thousands of emails affected, so I had to start over and import my Outlook Express emails again.

The 2nd time this happened was only for a few new emails in my inbox and new sent items, so I wouldn't mind manually fixing these one by one.  Is there any way to fix these emails?


When the error happened Live Mail created a copy of the email. In this original email in the message pane is this error message:

Message cannot be found

The contents of this message cannot be found.

Windows Live Mail

The email copy does have the original correct message in the message pane, yet Live Mail altered the FROM: name. It puts " " (quotes) before and after the name and also included the full email address. In other words the original FROM: name was "Anthony"  and the altered FROM: name was

"Anthony" <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>

The problem this creates is if later on I want to sort alphabetically all the emails in my Inbox, it will sort the emails with " "  like "Anthony" in a different spot than the Anthony without quotes.


Is there any way to fix these emails?