I have tried all of these and it still sitting in there it just keeps saying
"can't open item. Outlook has alreay begun transmitting this message." I
don't know what to do it has cause my computer to become very slow and now it
is holding all my other messages in my out box also!

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Stop what you are doing in the first place and trust Outlook to send it.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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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?