Well that's a BS answer if I ever heard one. Outlook is screwing up and you
have no answer.

So I suppose that I have to move the message from the outbox to the draft
folder in order to edit it. Right?

Same old crap. Outlook is broken and and you blame the user.

SNAFU

Kb


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
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Stop what you are doing in the first place and trust Outlook to send it.

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After furious head scratching, ! Kalbo asked:

| 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
| ...
|| 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
|| ...
||| Take a look here, it may help:
||| http://www.howto-outlook.com/Faq/mes...ckinoutbox.htm
|||
||| "! Kalbo" nonya wrote in message
||| ...
|||| 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?