Outlook 2003: Outgoing mail question...

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I sent a very large file (17Mb) loaded w/ pics to a bunch of people. It seems to be stuck. (still sending this file after hours) I have tried to go into "outbox" and delete. Won't work! How can I delete this outgoing file? :mad2:

Thanks in advance!!!!!
 
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CT Arrow said:
I sent a very large file (17MG) loaded w/ pics to a bunch of people. It seems to be stuck. (still sending this file after hours) I have tried to go into "outbox" and delete. Won't work! How can I delete this outgoing file? :mad2:

Thanks in advance!!!!!
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Control alt delete - shut down outlook?

Pull the plug and/or internet connection to crash it?
 
Okay got it! cancelled outlook and was able to go into outbox before it started to auto-send message, deleted it! A question though... Once an email is sending it can't be cancelled from outlook?
 
Your ISP or others probably have a maximum message size typically of 1MB.

Don't email photos. Put them on a sharing web site like Flickr and link to them.

http://www.flickr.com/
 
mikea said:
Your ISP or others probably have a maximum message size typically of 1MB.

Don't email photos. Put them on a sharing web site like Flickr and link to them.

http://www.flickr.com/
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Yea Mike, I suspect the same. It was file I recieved and thought it would be easy to forward. Lesson learned!

I use tinypic and one other.. simple-easy!

Appreciate everyone's quick response :)
 
Actually, it's probably an Outlook problem and not an ISP problem (well, many tiimes it is but maybe not in this case...17MB :eek:). I have the same issue with 2007. Spoke with MS tech support and their only answer is to never send anything over 5MB. They said once outlook senses a "connection loss" the outbox jambs and never "reconnects".

MS works = jumbo shrimp

An easy way to get a stuck e-mail out of your outbox is to click on "file" & "work offline". Once offline you can move the e-mail to your drafts folder. go back online (uncheck the "work offline") then try to send the e-mail again and hope your maintain a good connection to the interneet during the sending process.

By the way, I frequently send business e-mail in the 3 to 7 MB range. Last week, for example, I had a half dozen attachements to send to subcontractors for use in bidding a job and they totaled 19MB. I find that if I send them one at a time (i.e. wait until the first e-mail clears my outbox before composing and sending the second one) then I have much greater success. If I compose them all quickly (or offline) and have all six sitting in my outbox then they jamb up and never send.
 
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