email sending order

J

J. Harris

Is there someone to determine the send order from my
outlook?

I think Outlook is on crack. There seems to be no rhyme
or reason to the order in which it sends email.

I'm using Outlook 2002 and Windows XP. I do not have it
set up to set up to "send immediately when connected."
Let's say I type an overall list of the items that I'm
going to send to my colleagues and then send a handful of
items. When I click on "send/receive" it starts sending
all of the emails but in no order (or at least not in the
order I wrote and numbered the emails); for example,
number 3 is sent before number 1 before number 5 before
number 4 is sent before numbers 2, etc.

I tried both 1) putting them into my drafts folder and
sending them one at a time and 2) setting it to "send
immediately when connected" but neither worked. In fact,
it made the problem worse because it would take too long
to send the first item such that it would not send the
second item or would send the second items twice.

Is there anyway to define the send order (besides just
being more patient when doing my other two methods)?
 
P

Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]

How many different accounts do you have set up? Outlook will send to each
account in turn, depending on the schedule you specify in the Send/Receive
settings. When it connects to an SMTP server, the order the messages
disappear from your Outbox is a moot point, since the SMTP server probably
isn't submitting the incoming messages to its message transfer agent for
sending to their ultimate destination until the entire conversation is ended
(your client issues the Quit command). If you're seeing messages you send
from the same account behaving in a way where some of them send but others
do not send at all during the same Send/Receive instance, then there may be
a problem either with the unsent messages or addresses themselves, or an
issue on your SMTP server.

You can turn on logging in Outlook by following the instructions here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q300479
If you attach the log file to your post, this may give us a clue as to
what's going on.
 
J

Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]

Outlook does not send messages in any particular order. Why do you want
them sent in the order you submitted them?
 
Top