Big attachment has locked up outbox

[Mervyn Thomas]

In Outlook 2007 I have an email which contains a very big attachment jammed
up in the outbox. I cannot open it or delete it and the response is that
"Cannot open this email. Outlook has already started transmitting"

How can I get rid of it? And what is the normal limit for attachment size?

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

In Outlook 2007 I have an email which contains a very big attachment
jammed up in the outbox. I cannot open it or delete it and the
response is that "Cannot open this email. Outlook has already
started transmitting"

How can I get rid of it?

Put Outlook into offline mode. Exit Outlook. Restart Outlook.
Delete the item in the Outbox. Put Outlook in online mode.

And what is the normal limit for attachment size?

Ask your e-mail provider.

ALL e-mail gets sent as plain text. They know what limits they have
placed on your account, like maximum size per e-mail message.
Attachments are just sections within the body of your e-mail and are
also plain text. Encoding is used to convert non-text content into
text which then the recipient's e-mail client has to decode back to
its original format. Encoding a binary into plain text can mushroom
the size of an e-mail by 2 to 3 times the original size.

 

[Sidmyboy]

Thanks for the help but that did not work. I checked "Work offline" closed,
opened and tried to delete from outbox. No go.

Not beieng sure I was offline even though it is checked I tried sen-receive
which worked. Would it still work if offline?

Any other thought?

 

[Joe Grover]

It shouldn't send/receive if it's offline (though it should prompt you to go
online when you click it).

The other option would be to physically disconnect your computer from the
network/internet. It definitely can't go online and start the outbound
transfer of the message if it can't connect to the server.

Joe