stop email being re-sent if inbox full

[aikidokid]

I sent a 4MB attachment , and it didn't look like it was sending, so I kept
trying and now the recipients indox is permanently full. So far 3 x 27 emails.
I am getting email notification about the full inbox and that it will keep
trying to re send the emails.
How can I cancel this?

Thanks

 

[Meganolia]

see if this solves it:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011394141033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033

 

[aikidokid]

Thanks for the reply Meganolia,

I am using Outlook 2007, but I found what the link was after under slightly
different menus. I have reset the TimeOut to 10 mins (max). This should solve
the problem in the future.
But how can I stop any emails that are repeatedly being resent because of
the 'Inbox Full' message.
My outbox is empty at the moment.

 

[VanguardLH]

in

Thanks for the reply Meganolia,

I am using Outlook 2007, but I found what the link was after under slightly
different menus. I have reset the TimeOut to 10 mins (max). This should solve
the problem in the future.
But how can I stop any emails that are repeatedly being resent because of
the 'Inbox Full' message.
My outbox is empty at the moment.

You can't. You no longer have the message. The sending mail host to
which you gave the message is telling you that it will retry resending
your message. It is the *server* that is trying to resend the message.
You have no control over the message. The server may retry to send your
message for many hours or for several days. Only the owner of that
sending mail host can tell you the algorithm they use for retrying
e-mail delivery. Until your sending mail host gives up the retries or
until the recipient cleans out their mailbox to allow room for your
yet-again-duplicated message, you're powerless in stopping your sending
mail host from retrying the delivery.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I sent a 4MB attachment , and it didn't look like it was sending, so
I kept trying and now the recipients indox is permanently full. So
far 3 x 27 emails. I am getting email notification about the full
inbox and that it will keep trying to re send the emails.
How can I cancel this?

In addition to what Vanguard said, it is proper behavior for mail routers to
continue to retry delivering a message in the case of a full mailbox. A
full mailbox is a transient condition and SMTP rules say that in the event
of transient conditions, the sending server is SUPPOSED to retry later.