Sending phantom emails

[Steve]

My Outlook 2003 keeps trying to send a message even though there are no
outgoing messages. Then it comes back with an error message (0x800CCC13).
Any idea what the problem is? It also seems to take much longer to send a
real message because of this. Thanks for your help.

 

[Steve]

My Outlook 2003 keeps trying to send a message even though there are no
outgoing messages. Then it comes back with an error message (0x800CCC13).
Any idea what the problem is? I have also tried the MDBVU32.EXE utility, but there isn't a message in the folder to delete.

It also seems to take much longer to send a

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Could it be a stuck read receipt?
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/deletereadreceipt.htm

 

[Steve]

I tried that already, but there isn't a message in the folder to delete. Any
other ideas?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Which mail account(s) are you using?



-----

I tried that already, but there isn't a message in the folder to delete.
Any
other ideas?

 

[Steve]

I'm not sure I know the answer. Do you mean is it IMAP? If so, it is. Or
do you mean an account like Yahoo (it is Yahoo)?

 

[Steve]

Something else I noticed is that it takes a very long time for real messages
to go out. It constantly seems to be trying to send, but cannot get it/them
to go and hence I get the aforementioned error code. However, and perhaps
this is the important clue, if I close Outlook, and then reopen it, any real
messages in the outbox get sent almost immediately. Then, it starts cycling
on the phantom message. Explained differently, if I have two real messages
to go, and I close Outlook, wait and then reopen it, at the right bottom it
says 2 of 3 messages being sent (or something like that) and they disappear
immediately from the outbox. Then the message is 1 of 1 being sent and that
whole cycle starts.

Hope that helps.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Since it is an IMAP account, it is easy to see how the behavior is when you
create a new mail profile. If it works under the new mail profile, you can
remove the old one.

You can recreate your mail profile via the Mail applet in Control Panel.
For details see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm