Windows Mail Message is stuck in Outbox. each time I try to 'send' a message comes up 'error' consequently I cannot receive email but can send it.

Files are possibly too large -check email provider parameters or ISP specifications if those are not the issue then look into new mail feature to send files seperatly through cloud ...... Forgot the name but should be on apple site under support and search mail issues

This is one way I've found to delete an email stuck in the outbox (which is what it "sounds like" you are asking...)

1. change ya smtp settings so the message defo wont send!
2. send a test email to anyone
3. it will attempt to send but oversiously fail...
4. hopefully the outbox should be listed with 1 message waiting to go out...
5. if not, try going into the Activity Window and canceling the send command, that should show it up...
6. click the Outbox and the will be one message listed...
7. goto View -> then Show Favourites Bar
8. you should see a favourites bar appear...
9. simply drop and drag the Outbox into your favourites bar...
10. if you restart ur laptop or close mail and then the Outbox has disappeard, simply click the Outbox in you favourites tab and woop woop it should appear in the Side Bar

contact windows live support

Open your 'outbox' folder -- there might be one message "stuck" there, due to having an invalid ID.
So, every time that you open your E-mail program, it tries again to send that same message, and, of course, fails to send it. So, just DELETE that E-mail, since it repeatedly cannnot be delivered.

1. Go the File menu, then choose Work Offline in order to stop Outlook from trying to send all mails:
2. Switch to the Outbox.
3. You now have two options:
a. Move the message: you can drag-and-drop or use the Edit: Move to Folder menu item to move the e-mail to your drafts folder. This will allow you to re-open the offending e-mail and slim it down by removing the large attachments before attempting to resend it.

b. Delete the message: this will immediately remove the message from the Outbox and put it in Deleted Items.
4.

If you receive an error at this point that says the message is being transmitted, close Outlook, wait for Outlook to exit (you may need to use Task Manager and wait for the Outlook.exe process to exit), and then start Outlook again and repeat steps 2-3. In some cases, the item may not be released until Outlook has restarted.
5. Go to the File menu, deselect Work Offline to start sending and receiving mail again.

Be sure that only one instance of Outlook is running.
You can verify this by openning the tasks manager and ordering process alphabetically.
Kill all redondant Outlook processes.

Tools > Options > Mail Setup > Send/Receive > Clear check mark on "Schedule Automatic Send/Receive every .. minutes" > OK

Close your Outlook > Open Outlook again > Go to Outbox > Select The message > Send To/Move To Draft

Go to Draft Folder and delete it from there

Hey,

I recommend you remove your email account from windows mail, and recreate it.

Thanks,
Ekse

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/00e419ef-fee2-472c-ad02-b14331571a521033.mspx

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