I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email. The
challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
ones.

Brian Stole

"brianstole" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:89A12746-EBC1-41DE-A5EC-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
> send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
> send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email.
> The
> challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
> ones.


File - Work Offline.
Wait 5 minutes.
Try to delete message.
If it fails, File - Exit.
Wait 5 minutes.
Restart Outlook, stay offline.
Try to delete message.

--
f.h.

I've been trying this for days & staying off line did the trick.

Thanks

"F. H. Muffman" wrote:

> "brianstole" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:89A12746-EBC1-41DE-A5EC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
> > send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
> > send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email.
> > The
> > challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
> > ones.
>
>
> File - Work Offline.
> Wait 5 minutes.
> Try to delete message.
> If it fails, File - Exit.
> Wait 5 minutes.
> Restart Outlook, stay offline.
> Try to delete message.
>
> --
> f.h.
>
>

I have this problem in Office 97(on XP pro)-please tell me where the "work
offline" option is??!! as in File - work offline-from what I've read it does
the trick but dumbo here can't find it!
Many thanks.

"brianstole" wrote:

> I've been trying this for days & staying off line did the trick.
>
> Thanks
>
> "F. H. Muffman" wrote:
>
> > "brianstole" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:89A12746-EBC1-41DE-A5EC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
> > > send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
> > > send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email.
> > > The
> > > challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
> > > ones.
> >
> >
> > File - Work Offline.
> > Wait 5 minutes.
> > Try to delete message.
> > If it fails, File - Exit.
> > Wait 5 minutes.
> > Restart Outlook, stay offline.
> > Try to delete message.
> >
> > --
> > f.h.
> >
> >

Sorry to waste time, but I realised Offline may relate to IE, so I tried that
but to no avail.
Next question, in Outlook when I go to File, New, there is no Outlook Data
File menu, can anyone help please?
Thanks


"brianstole" wrote:

> I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
> send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
> send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email. The
> challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
> ones.
>
> Brian Stole
>

Alarmfan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have this problem in Office 97(on XP pro)-please tell me where the
> "work offline" option is??!! as in File - work offline-from what I've
> read it does the trick but dumbo here can't find it!

Disconnect the network, then stop and restart Outlook. Try to delete the
message then.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Alarmfan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Sorry to waste time, but I realised Offline may relate to IE, so I
> tried that but to no avail.
> Next question, in Outlook when I go to File, New, there is no Outlook
> Data File menu, can anyone help please?

That's because in Outlook 97 it's File>New>Personal Folders File.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]