How do I get Outlook 2007 to send an email?

[Guest]

This is a little bit different than some of the previous questions concerning
getting an email sent in Outlook 2007. I recently migrated from Outlook
2003. As far as I can tell the migration went fine, all my messages show up
and I get new mail. The problem I'm having is sending mail. I bring up a
new message either type in or pick a name from my Contacts list, type my
message and then click on Send. I get an error message saying "Cannot send
this item.". When I close out of the message it asks if I'd like to save a
draft, if I select Yes, I get another message that says "The operation
failed.". I have Outlook 2007 installed in a Windows XP SP2 machine. I've
also installed Outlook 2007 on my desktop machine as well everything looks
the same in the settings, but the laptop one just won't send. Any help would
be much appreciated.

 

[Brian Tillman]

This is a little bit different than some of the previous questions
concerning getting an email sent in Outlook 2007. I recently
migrated from Outlook 2003. As far as I can tell the migration went
fine, all my messages show up and I get new mail. The problem I'm
having is sending mail. I bring up a new message either type in or
pick a name from my Contacts list, type my message and then click on
Send. I get an error message saying "Cannot send this item.".

Make sure you're properly authenticating to your outgoing server. Disable
any mail scanning in your antivirus program. Create a new mail profile.