Email - Outbox - automatically switching from italic meaning will be sent to normal font meaning it

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Does anyone know how to stop outlook annoyingly not sending things in the
Outbox when they are highlighted / selected? If they are displayed in an
italic font then they will be sent, but if the focus / cursor / pointer /
selection / whatever you call the highlighted (normally blue) bar that
highlights a selected message is on the message then it jumps from italic to
normal font and then just sits there. If a message doesn't send for
whatever reason and you reopen it, to Resend it, then with Outlook 2002 / XP
you had a few seconds to click another folder or message before this
demented inbuilt "feature" would toggle it to its not-send state. Just
upgraded to Outlook 2003 (anyone know in what way it actually is an upgrade
??) and it gives about a quarter of a second before toggling an outbox
message to this stupid not-send state. How can I cancel this stupid
feature - or bug - completely?
 
Outlook by itself does not do this, but some less-than-well-behaved Outlook add-ins do. The solution is to turn off all add-ins, then turn them back on until you find the culprit.
 
Outlook by itself does not do this, but some
less-than-well-behaved Outlook add-ins do.
The solution is to turn off all add-ins, then
turn them back on until you find the culprit.
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having been conscious of Outlook always having done this I was doubtful it
was an add-in problem, ie. it always occurred before any add-ins were added.
Anyway, I've tried your suggestion and it hasn't made any difference.
Anyone got any other suggestions?
 
I suspect you have not turned off the add-ins that don't appear in the COM Add-ins dialog -- those registered in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins. For any witih LoadBehavior = 3, change the value to 2. (Make a backup of the registry first.)
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Tried that too now. Still got same problem. I'm sure it must be a glitch
or setting in Outlook itself.
 
Doubtful, but why don't you tell us your Outlook version and what kind of mail accounts you're using just in case?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Well other than say Outlook 2003 not too sure. Email is just an ISP's free
pop3 / smtp thing, if that's an accurate description.
 
To answer my own question, the answer is to drag the message from the Outbox
into another folder, open it, and then push send. That will automatically
move it back to the Outbox and then actually send it.
 
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