Problem resending messages from outbox- doesn't work

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Here's my problem (Outlook):

After I compose a message and click "send", my messages go to the Outbox for
queueing until I hit the Send/Receive button, and then a successful send
moves them to the Sent items folder. But if I access any of these outbox
messages prior to sending, OR if there is a problem with the send (i.e., I
forgot to change the outgoing server when using someone else's network), then
these messages stay in the outbox with the "open letter" icon. I haven't
been able to figure any way to reconfigure these messages to be ready for
sending again, which is really inconvenient and frustrating. (in these
messages, if I click the "send" button, it does nothing.) Then I'm forced to
just start a new message, which is a hassle.

This doesn't seem right. Does anyone have ideas? I'm new to Outlook, have
been using Eudora on a Mac the last few years, and just switched to a new PC
recently (Office 2003, Windows XP). I wanted to use Outlook to eventually
integrate my e-mail/contacts with a PDA, but I'm just not enjoying this
program!

Thanks!
 
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StephLT said:
Here's my problem (Outlook):

After I compose a message and click "send", my messages go to the
Outbox for queueing until I hit the Send/Receive button, and then a
successful send moves them to the Sent items folder. But if I access
any of these outbox messages prior to sending, OR if there is a
problem with the send (i.e., I forgot to change the outgoing server
when using someone else's network), then these messages stay in the
outbox with the "open letter" icon. I haven't been able to figure
any way to reconfigure these messages to be ready for sending again,
which is really inconvenient and frustrating. (in these messages, if
I click the "send" button, it does nothing.) Then I'm forced to just
start a new message, which is a hassle.

This doesn't seem right. Does anyone have ideas? I'm new to
Outlook, have been using Eudora on a Mac the last few years, and just
switched to a new PC recently (Office 2003, Windows XP). I wanted to
use Outlook to eventually integrate my e-mail/contacts with a PDA,
but I'm just not enjoying this program!

Thanks!
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Hitting 'send' again should indeed put the message in an "I'm ready to go!"
state - that's how it's supposed to work. When you do this, does the message
window even close - and does it show up in italics in the outbox, indicating
that Outlook knows it's ready to go out at
the next send/receive?

Diane Poremsky posted this link in reply to a similar post in
microsoft.public.outlook.general:
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/outbox.htm
 
In my case, after hitting "send" again, the message window closes but the
message never shows up in italics. It stays as an opened message.

But thanks for the slipstick link- I checked their suggestion (switch
folders before hitting send the second time) and this worked. I'll follow
that site's suggestions for fixing the add-ins which are causing my problem.

Thanks again- I really appreciate your help!
 
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StephLT said:
In my case, after hitting "send" again, the message window closes but
the message never shows up in italics. It stays as an opened message.

But thanks for the slipstick link- I checked their suggestion (switch
folders before hitting send the second time) and this worked. I'll
follow that site's suggestions for fixing the add-ins which are
causing my problem.

Thanks again- I really appreciate your help!
Click to expand...

You're most welcome. Good luck.
 
I've figured this bug - & it is a bug - out. Drag the email from the Outbox
to the Draft box. Send it from the Draft box & hit send/receive. Don't open
the outbox before you hit send/receive or the cycle will start over again.
 
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