Outlook Sending Phantom Emails

[McGibbon]

I have been having problems with Outlook 2007. Even when there are not
emails in my outbox it says it is sending 1 of 1. This number seems to
continue to increment with each send until the next thing I know I am seeing
17 of 17 when there is still nothing in the box to send. I have searched the
web for a solution to this and have had no luck. Does anyone have any
suggestions?

Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Andy

 

[VanguardLH]

I have been having problems with Outlook 2007. Even when there are not
emails in my outbox it says it is sending 1 of 1. This number seems to
continue to increment with each send until the next thing I know I am seeing
17 of 17 when there is still nothing in the box to send. I have searched the
web for a solution to this and have had no luck. Does anyone have any
suggestions?

Do you have Outlook configured to automatically send receipts? If so,
why? Do you have Outlook configured to prompt when to send a requested
read receipt and you chose to send one? Read receipts are hidden by
Outlook in the Outbox folder, and Outlook has problems sending read
receipts which gets them stuck in the Outbox folder (where you can't see
them).

One method of getting rid of hidden stuck read receipts is to use
Outlookspy. See http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/delete_rr.htm.
Outlookspy isn't free. It expires after its month trial period but is
fully functional during its trial period. Use it to fix your problem,
then reconfigure Outlook's tracking options to always ignore read
receipt requests.

MDBVU32.EXE from Microsoft is free but more difficult to use. Read
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/deletereadreceipt.htm.