email not being sent?

S

steve

I have an Exchange server 2003.
We use outlook 2000.

I have had this recurring problem that raises its head from time to
time.
We have about 100 users. Generally everything works.

But from time to time an individual workstations that worked fine
before now stops being able to send mail. It can receive mail ok.

What happens is that when the mail is sent it disappears from the out
mail box but is not delivered. It just disappears into never never
land.

On this one computer I even logged in as myself instead of the user,
set up my outlook mail account and same thing. In other words its
something about the individual computer. My mail works find from my
other workstation, It has nothing as far as I can tell with Exchange.
Other computers work fine. It's just every once and a while one
computer exhibits this behaviour.

But here is one other bit of info. Sometimes when I make some sort of
change to the configuration and then try to send an email it works.
But then if I close the email and log out of the email (not the user
login) and then open the email again. Its goes back to not working.
It's almost like if I poking it a bit, then it works for that session
but if I close the mail it stops working, until I change some setting
and then it starts working again for that session. However it is
unrelated to one specific setting, there are several settings like,
save outgoing mail turn off, close mail then open again and turn back
on and it works for that session. But other settings cause it to
function properly for that session as well.

Sadly I dont have access to this users machine all the time, as they
are doing work, so suggestions you make may not be able to be tested
immediately but has anyone seen this or can you provide any insight
into this issue.

I have tried giving the microsoft office folder domain users
permission on the local ws, thinking that might be it, I have changed
every setting I can on the workstation and accept for the aspect that
it sometimes works until mail is closed nothing makes it permenent so
that it just works when opened every time.

Regards
 
K

Kathleen Orland

If you open Outlook in safe mode, does the issue continue?

Start > Run > Outlook.exe /safe
(note the space between outlook.exe and /safe)

Have you enabled message tracking on Exchange to see what happens?

They do not show up in the message tracking. Like Exchange never got
them.

Regards
 
S

steve

If you open Outlook in safe mode, does the issue continue?

Start > Run > Outlook.exe /safe
(note the space between outlook.exe and /safe)

Same, Outlook opens fine but again same problem. No change.
 
K

Kathleen Orland

So that rules out any Add In. Creating a new Outlook profile doesn't make a
difference?


If you open Outlook in safe mode, does the issue continue?

Start > Run > Outlook.exe /safe
(note the space between outlook.exe and /safe)

Same, Outlook opens fine but again same problem. No change.
 
S

steve

Yes your right.

Not sure what you mean exactly by creating a new profile.

However I deleted the mail settings on that computer for that user and
then re created them (perhaps thats what you mean) but still no luck.
Besides I logged in as another user eg me. and set up mail for me and
it does the same thing. eg will not send mail So it appears that any
user who logs in as themselves and starts outlook with their settings
will exhibit the same behaviour. eg not sent mail.
 
K

Kathleen Orland

So it's specific to the PC in that case, not the user. Have you tried Detect
and Repair from the Help Menu?
 
S

steve

Well when I do that I get two errors.

First
msiexec.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry
for the inconvenience.
and then installer terminated prematurely.

Im now investigating those issues.

I ran http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

but same errors when I run fix and repair.
 

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