Weird behavior for replies in Outlook 2003?

[irtheman]

I can only send replies or forwards from my inbox. My incoming mail
gets sorted to various folders and if I try to reply or forward one of
those messages the response shows up in the same folder. It never gets
sent. It just appears at the top of the list of email in that folder.
I just discovered that I have to move the message I want to reply to or
forward back to my inbox and then reply to or forward the message.
That will work then but it is very annoying! Any ideas on what could
be wrong or how to fix it?

I am using Outlook 2003 with the latest updates to send/receive with an
exchange 2003 server running on an SBS installation. There is no
firewall or virus scanning of the messages on my XP Pro machine.

Thanks!
Matthew Hanna

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Select Tools > Options > Prefs. tab > Email Options > Advanced Email
Options. Is the second box from the top checked?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I can only send replies or forwards from my inbox. My incoming mail
gets sorted to various folders and if I try to reply or forward one of
those messages the response shows up in the same folder. It never
gets sent.

How do you know it doesn't get sent?

Click Tools>Options>E-mail Options>Advanced E-mail Options. Do you have "In
folders other than the Inbox, save replies with thoriginal message" checked?
If so, that's why the replies appear in the same folder at the original -
because you told Outlook to do that. It's not a sign that the replies
aren't being sent.

 

[irtheman]

Select Tools > Options > Prefs. tab > Email Options > Advanced Email
Options. Is the second box from the top checked?

Yep. It is checked.

 

[irtheman]

How do you know it doesn't get sent?

Click Tools>Options>E-mail Options>Advanced E-mail Options. Do you have "In
folders other than the Inbox, save replies with thoriginal message" checked?
If so, that's why the replies appear in the same folder at the original -
because you told Outlook to do that. It's not a sign that the replies
aren't being sent.

It definitely wasn't being sent and as proof I got yelled at by my boss
for not responding to his question in a timely fashion. Oh well!! I
uninstalled Outlook and then reinstalled it from the sbs server and
everything is working well. Again. Weird.

Thanks!
Matthew Hanna