You can also set Outlook to work offline - then close (completely close) and
reopen Outlook and delete from the outbox.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Charles Kenyon asked:

| Thank you for the quick reply. It turned out that putting my computer
| to sleep (it is a laptop) broke the connection enough to let me
| delete the offending email from my outbox. I hope I've learned my
| lesson.
|
| "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
| ...
|| Once it's been submitted to the MAPI transport that's what you get.
|| The workaround is to create a different profile that uses a
|| different PST file and then open that original PST from the new
|| profile. You can then delete the item from Outbox.
||
|| --
|| Ken Slovak
|| [MVP - Outlook]
|| http://www.slovaktech.com
|| Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
|| Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
|| http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
||
||
|| "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
|| ...
||| I feel like there should be a newsgroup titled microsoft.stupid.
|||
||| I just tried sending myself a 500Mb email (to a different computer)
||| rather than writing a disk. Even though I have a broad-band
||| connection, it is clogging everything up. It has been sending for a
||| couple of hours now and is slowing the system down.
|||
||| I tried cancelling the Send/Recieve, but that doesn't work. I tried
||| closing Outlook (and letting it be improperly closed) I disconnect
||| from the network. When I restart Outlook, it begins the send again.
|||
||| Ideas? (Other than look on it as a learning experience
||| --
||| Charles Kenyon
|||
||| Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
|||
||| Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
||| Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
|||
||| See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
|||
||| My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
||| --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
||| This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
||| and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
||| from my ignorance and your wisdom.