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Bear with me, I am new to this, and thought I had posted to the
original
thread I was reading about this problem.
Any webnews interface to Usenet is limited and clumsy. You might want
to use an NNTP client instead, like Outlook Express. Microsoft's NNTP
server (msnews.microsoft.com) is free and doesn't require logging in
(i.e., it has anonymous login). You can, for example, in OE use the
watch flag and sorting to keep the watched threads, like those you
start or in which you participate, at the top of the message list.
The two problems are
1: By cycling I mean that send/receive does not happen once, it is
continuous until I use the Task Manager to close the program. All
send/receives are manual, I never use auto send/receive.
So the "send immediately" option is disabled?
Is the mail poll interval disabled, too?
Have you tried stating Outlook in its safe mode ("outlook.exe /safe")
to see if a plug-in is causing the problem? Safe mode means no
plug-ins get loaded when Outlook starts.
2: I cannot delete an e-mail in Outbox because I get no response
except
when I try to open it, and I get a message saying Outlook has
started sending
the message.
Put Outlook into offline mode (under File menu), exit Outlook, reload
Outlook, delete the stubborn Outbox item, and put Outlook back into
online mode. Outlook gets restuck on the bad Outbox item when you
first load Outlook because of the mail poll. If you have mail polling
enabled, say, for 10 minutes, the zeroeth minute is also included
which means Outlook tries to send when it first loads. Thereafter the
item remains stuck but Outlook considers it an in-progress task and
won't let you delete the item. That is why you need to put Outlook in
offline mode AND restart Outlook so it never tries to connect (and
then try to resend the old item).
