Outlook email receiving

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I have a huge message clogging my email receiving function. Is there a way to preview email before it is downloaded to the server and delete it so I don't encounter this type of problem?

Pamela Winter
 
Please forgive the duplicate posting on this. I wasn't sure the first message would post since I could not access my mailbox to confirm my email address.
 
Outlook is your mail *client*. I assume that your mail server is either a POP or IMAP server at Patriot Media. You can check this for yourself in Tools | E-mail Accounts. We'll need to know which it is before we can do anything more with Outlook.

In the meantime, if Patriot offers web browser access to your email account, that would be the easiest solution -- log into your mailbox with your browser and read/delete the offending item.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Did you check to see if they have a web interface? That's really going to be the easiest way to deal with this, if it's available.

If it isn't, choose Tools |Send/Receive | Send/Receive Settings | Define Send/Receive Groups. Click Edit to edit the All Accounts group. Under Folder Options, choose Download Headers Only. Click OK to save the settings.

Next, you'll press F9 to do a send/receive. This should download just the headers. Delete the one you don't want, and mark the ones you do want to read by right-clicking them and choosing to download each message. Then do F9 again. If this clears the bad message and downloads the good ones, you can go back into the Send/Receive group and make it download the full message again.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
pamelawinter said:
I am using Outlook 2003 as my mail server.
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No, it's not. Outlook 2003 is your mail _client_. Your server is a POP3,
IMAP, HTTP, or Exchange server. Which?
 
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