I think I might have descovered the reason.

It appears that if I open the outbox to make sure the mail is there and
being sent, Outlook resets the status and turns off the "to be sent" switch.
So if I edit the email in the outbox before it gets sent, when I hit SEND,
it saves the mail to the outbox and immediately tunrs of the "to be sent"
switch because the email is highlighted in the outbox.

How can I get Outlook to stop doing this?

KB

"! Kalbo" nonya wrote in message
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The problem is not getting rid of the mail, the problem is that the mail
never gets sent.

I'm trying to send the mail, not delete it.

This happens with simple 80kb emails and not ones with big attachments so
size is not the problem.

As stated before, the mail does not get sent out. If I hit Send/Recieve,
Outlook reports Mail sent without attempting to send it.

KB

"Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Take a look here, it may help:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Faq/mes...ckinoutbox.htm

"! Kalbo" nonya wrote in message
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Running Outlook 2003 on XP service pack 2

Sometimes I send an email and it goes to the outbox but immediately the
font in the outbox changes from italics to regular. I can sometimes move
it to the draft folder and resend and it goes correctly, other times it
gets stuck again.

When I do a send/ recieve, it never attempts to send the mail and just
ignores that it's in the outbox.

I've tried restarting Outlook, putting it into offline mode and then
back to online and also rebooting the PC to no avail. Mail sent after
the mail in question gets hung up go through with not problem.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this problem.

Any ideas?