Stuck in Outbox again

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This seems to be a nagging situation as I’ve found numerous references when searching the net.
I cannot find a good solution however.

Client runs Outlook 2007. Sending and receiving mail works fine, except sending ONLY works when email addresses are enter in the TO field.
If one or more email addresses are entered in the CC field, the email never leaves the outbox.

Any thoughts? It’s a real pain!

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In my experience mail stuck in the outbox is usually a corrupt address problem.
Can you send email from your webmail with CCs? This will eliminate your mail provider as the problem.
Are you sure the mail address format is correct when adding to the CC field?
Does it happen with the same user in the CC or any user?

cheers, Paul

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Webmail is no problem. But the customer prefers Outlook (it’s what he’s used to).
Seems to happen regardless of the email addressee in the CC.

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It could be that the address picked up by Outlook is from the local nicknames and is invalid. Rename the NK2 file, re-start Outlook and try again.

cheers, Paul

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I’ll look into this, but it’s odd that if the address is in the TO line, it’s OK, but if the same address is in the CC line — frozen.

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Re-install / repair Outlook?

cheers, Paul

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Installed 2010 and still having the same problem. GROAN.

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Are the names in the CC field fully entered addresses or resolved from an address book?

Is this an Exchange based email system?

Joe

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Not exchange based; names are typed, not clicked on from an address book.

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Not exchange based; names are typed, not clicked on from an address book.

Have you tried turning on Outlook logging to see if shows anything?

Have you checked the application event logs?

Joe

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Have you tried turning on Outlook logging to see if shows anything?

Have you checked the application event logs?

Joe

Yes. I know what the message is, what account it was supposed to go out on, who it was to go to, etc. It seems that I did not complete “To” field correctly and it is stuck on that. I can’t seem to find the message to delete it, fix it, or whatever. It just keeps popping up a box that I need to fix that before it can be sent.

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Yes. I know what the message is, what account it was supposed to go out on, who it was to go to, etc. It seems that I did not complete “To” field correctly and it is stuck on that. I can’t seem to find the message to delete it, fix it, or whatever. It just keeps popping up a box that I need to fix that before it can be sent.

I was not replying to you. I was replying to the original poster. This is why you need to start your own thread rather than pile on an existing thread.

Joe

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Outlook, in most any version (2000 thru 2013) has occasional problems with profile corruption. It can come at any time. Recently, I configured Outlook with POP accounts, for two staff members at an office that has seven users who use OWA (webmail) from their Internet provider. One user’s Outlook worked great “out-of-the-box”, while the other user had occasional messages hanging in the Outbox folder. Everything I changed (SMTP servers, authentication types, port numbers) failed to fix the problem. Only when I created a new profile, this this user’s problem go away.
This is often a last-try effort that almost always fixes various Outlook problems — after years of supporting Outlook users, you’d think I’d catch on and try this sooner in the troubleshooting process! Guess I’m getting too old…

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Does the same issue occur if using the BCC box instead of CC:?

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right," ask "Am I doing the right things?"

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do you know any tricks in outlook?

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do you know any tricks in outlook?

My experience with mail stuck in the Outbox was only resolved, after trying every other suggestion, by adding a new mail account, and transferring all files across to this. A bit messy to do, but I’ve no problems since then.

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Don’t know if the cause is the same, but I get this occasionally and it is “solved” by shutting down Outlook (it warns there is an unsent message in the outbox which you accept), leaving it a minute and restarting it. The message(s) in the outbox get sent once I restart it.

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This happens in the latest Mac Office as well when you enter a bad email address (like you leave off the mail server.) It sticks there and cannot be found, or at least I cannot find it in Outlook. Looking for it in Webmail is an approach if you have that ability. Why does this not show up in the drafts folder or somewhere it can be repaired or removed?

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