How do I delete an email stuck in my Outbox?

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femmediana

Have an email with 2 Publisher attachments stuck in my Outbook. Have tried
to delete but am unable to find a way to delete this email. Keep getting
message that email has "begun transmitting", and it has been stuck for two
days. Can anyone tell me how to delete this email
 
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Brian Tillman

femmediana said:
Have an email with 2 Publisher attachments stuck in my Outbook. Have
tried to delete but am unable to find a way to delete this email.
Keep getting message that email has "begun transmitting", and it has
been stuck for two days. Can anyone tell me how to delete this email
Click to expand...

In Outlook, click File and check Work Offline. Stop and restart Outlook.
Delete the message from Outbox. Click FIle and uncheck Work Offline. Stop
and restart Outlook.
 
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Nina Marie

Thanks so much-I had same problem and couldn't find answer. It worked!
Nina Marie
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

What didn't work for you? You cut off any meaningful reply.

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After furious head scratching, Mrs Miggins asked:

| I have the same problem and this isn't working for me. Any
| suggestions?
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| "Nina Marie" wrote:
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|| Thanks so much-I had same problem and couldn't find answer. It
|| worked! Nina Marie
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|| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
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|||| Thank You Brian!!!! It worked!!!
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||| You're welcome.
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||| Brian Tillman
 
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Mrs Miggins

To all of you who replied to me...............

Thank you for your time and effort in trying to help me but, having tried
each and every one of the suggestions, I still can't get rid of the blasted
thing. I think I must have tried every option. The message stuck is 217 Mb
and it is refusing to move from the outbox no matter what I do. I have tried
all suggestions online, offline, inline, outline, standing on my head, with a
blindfold, without a blindfold............ ok, I'm exaggerating just a touch
but you get my drift! I am getting quite frustrated now and may have to lose
outlook all together.
I'm sure it is probably a really silly technical hitch that could be got rid
of in a flash by someone who knows what they're doing but computer genius I
aint!
Is there anything else I could try? Not that I'm getting desperate or
anything like that!
Thanks in anticipation

Mrs M.
 
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Entelechy

I am another wit this issue, but with a twist.

I am running OL 2007 with all current updates.

I have messages randomly get stuck like this. Unfortunately i am completely
disabled at this point because the send/ receive continues to try to resend
backing up thousands of commands in queue. I have in the past done all fo
the workarounds above with mixed success. In addition I have tried creating
a new profile and pointing the datastore there- which worked once- but not
this time. This is the first time I found/ used the download- but that did
not work either. I got an unable to abort message. The only thing different
this time is that it is a MAPI calendar change.

The only other thing I have been able to find is that my iPhone MAY be the
culprit. There are some sites that say the sync process on contacts changed
in the iPhone and synced through iTunes are corrupt and that they are the
ones that do this. I have not been able to test enough to know, but now I am
completely hamstrung. i cannot send or receive without having this message
jam things up- and I cannot delete it.

I will be thrilled to find out what is causing this and eliminate it since
it happens about every 2 weeks and is costing me hours of time to deal with
every time. Meanwhile- I am on webmail.
 
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