can the wds team please acknowledge the OE bug, it is easy to reproduce

Can easily be reproduced on a fresh XP sp2 install.

When indexing an Outlook Express store with a Hotmail account (http mail, not pop), if you leave OE running, after a little while searchprotocolhost.exe will pop up the following error message box:

Outlook Express could not be started. The application was unable to open the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full. Contact Microsoft support for further assistance. (0×80004005, 183)

When the hotmail http account is removed the error goes away. The error may happen for other reasons, but the OE hotmail integration is definitely one cause.