message stuck in outbox

N

Nikkibotz

I tried to send a message that was too big (dah) Anyway it is holding up
other emails and I cannot delete it. I canceled it and tried to delete it
many, many times but it is still there causing trouble.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

File->Work Offline. Completely close Outlook. Reopen Outlook and either
delete from outbox or move to another folder. File->Uncheck Work Offline.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Nikkibotz asked:

| I tried to send a message that was too big (dah) Anyway it is holding
| up other emails and I cannot delete it. I canceled it and tried to
| delete it many, many times but it is still there causing trouble.
 
C

Cranium

Even with Outlook offline, cannot delete message. Error message says already
begun transmitting message. Also cannot move or open message. I am using
Outlook 2003 on XP Pro.
 
N

Nikkibotz

Mine was saying that too but I went off line and completley closed like
Millie said, then opened up again and it worked. did you close and reopen?
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Thanks,
Nikki


Cranium said:
Even with Outlook offline, cannot delete message. Error message says already
begun transmitting message. Also cannot move or open message. I am using
Outlook 2003 on XP Pro.

Milly Staples said:
File->Work Offline. Completely close Outlook. Reopen Outlook and either
delete from outbox or move to another folder. File->Uncheck Work Offline.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Nikkibotz asked:

| I tried to send a message that was too big (dah) Anyway it is holding
| up other emails and I cannot delete it. I canceled it and tried to
| delete it many, many times but it is still there causing trouble.
 
C

Cranium

Several times. I can go in and right click - delete but the message goes no
where. If I go to one of the other options, ie open, forward, etc. I get the
same message.

Nikkibotz said:
Mine was saying that too but I went off line and completley closed like
Millie said, then opened up again and it worked. did you close and reopen?
--
Thanks,
Nikki


Cranium said:
Even with Outlook offline, cannot delete message. Error message says already
begun transmitting message. Also cannot move or open message. I am using
Outlook 2003 on XP Pro.

Milly Staples said:
File->Work Offline. Completely close Outlook. Reopen Outlook and either
delete from outbox or move to another folder. File->Uncheck Work Offline.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Nikkibotz asked:

| I tried to send a message that was too big (dah) Anyway it is holding
| up other emails and I cannot delete it. I canceled it and tried to
| delete it many, many times but it is still there causing trouble.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Ensure that Outlook is completely closed by using Task Manager to kill any running process of outlook.exe after you exit Outlook (leaving your PDA/smartphone cradled can do this). Then try again.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Cranium asked:

| Several times. I can go in and right click - delete but the message
| goes no where. If I go to one of the other options, ie open,
| forward, etc. I get the same message.
|
| "Nikkibotz" wrote:
|
|| Mine was saying that too but I went off line and completley closed
|| like Millie said, then opened up again and it worked. did you close
|| and reopen? --
|| Thanks,
|| Nikki
||
||
|| "Cranium" wrote:
||
||| Even with Outlook offline, cannot delete message. Error message
||| says already begun transmitting message. Also cannot move or open
||| message. I am using Outlook 2003 on XP Pro.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| File->Work Offline. Completely close Outlook. Reopen Outlook and
|||| either delete from outbox or move to another folder.
|||| File->Uncheck Work Offline.
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||||
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Nikkibotz asked:
||||
||||| I tried to send a message that was too big (dah) Anyway it is
||||| holding up other emails and I cannot delete it. I canceled it and
||||| tried to delete it many, many times but it is still there causing
||||| trouble.
 
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