Our Outlook continues to get hung up when we try and send documents with attachments. The hour glass just sits there and it locks up everything. I have to go to task manager and click on “End Task” several times and then reboot the computer. It is not something that happens consistently, but often enough that I am thinking of switching everyone back to Outlook Express. I hate to give up the Calendar option in Outlook though. Any ideas?
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Hung Up (2000-SP3)
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AskWoody LoungerApril 4, 2005 at 3:22 pm #417898Viewing 0 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody LoungerApril 4, 2005 at 3:41 pm #938884I’ve created single Word documents that are > 20MB so I don’t think the quantity necessarily means anything!
When you have attached the file, is it still being viewed (e.g.) in Word?
Can you double-click the attachment and get it to open up in the appropriate program?Do Verizon have an attachment size limit?
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AskWoody LoungerApril 4, 2005 at 3:46 pm #938885Sometimes I send it directly from the program, ex. Excel or Word and other times I attach it via Outlook. No, I cannot double click it and open it – I am unable to do anything at that point. Verizon’s limit is far beyond anything we use. I recollect having issues with Outlook before, but did not document what the issues were.
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AskWoody LoungerApril 4, 2005 at 7:54 pm #938923Does your outgoing mail server setting in Outlook go directly to your ISP, or does it go through a local program such as an anti-virus or anti-spam filter? The usual giveaway is that the outgoing SMTP server name is localhost or 127.0.0.1. If it’s being filtering, you might try setting it back to your ISP’s server and see if that helps.
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