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This article explains why an email may be stuck in Outlook and how to force it to send or delete such a message from the Outbox of Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 and lower. Email messages may be stuck in the Outbox folder for various reasons. In this article we will try to figure out why this happens and how to delete a stuck message or make a hanging e-mail send. If you do not care about the reason and just want a quick solution to delete a stuck email, proceed straight away to. If you are more patient and curious and are interested to know the reasons why emails may become stuck in Outlook's Outbox, read through the points below.
This will help you understand what exactly can force a message to hang and how to prevent this from happening in the future. As you know, without a correct diagnosis, there is no cure. A message contains a large attachment Attaching a large file that exceeds the size limit set by your mail server is one of the most frequent reasons why Outlook is not sending emails from Outbox.
When this occurs, you have two alternatives - either to delete it or move to the Drafts folder and then re-size or remove the attachment. To delete an email stuck in Outbox, first go to the Send/Receive tab and click Work Offline. This will prevent Outlook from sending email messages that are currently in the Outbox folder. After that switch to Outbox, right-click the message and select Delete.
To remove/resize the attachment, set Outlook in the Offline mode as described above, navigate to the Outbox folder and drag the stuck message to the Drafts folder to make edits. Alternatively, you can right-click the email, select Move from the context menu and then choose Other Folder Drafts. Tips: Instead of sending huge attachments you can upload large files onto your local network share and simply include a corresponding link in the message. If you are at home or on the road, you can use one of the file sharing services like. Alternatively, you can create an Outlook rule that defers sending messages with large attachments. Of course, this won't solve the problem completely, but will give you time to cancel sending an e-mail that exceeds the size limit set by your email provider and help to avoid the problem.
Viewing the Outbox or opening a message while it is waiting to be sent If you open an e-mail message whilst it is in your Outbox waiting to be sent (and even if you are only looking in the Outbox folder while the message is still there), such an e-mail will be marked as read and won't go. The title of the message will no longer appear in bold, and this is the most obvious symptom telling you that the message is stuck. This behavior is caused by a number of Outlook add-ins, the most known of which are Business Contact Manager (BCM), Social Connector add-in, Xobni, iTunes Outlook Addin, iCoud add-in and many others. Uninstalling or disabling such add-ins may help, but this is definitely not the best way to proceed because you may really need at least some of them for your work. An easy and effective way to send a message stuck in the Outbox is this: drag the stuck message from Outbox to any other folder, e.g.
To Drafts, go to that folder, open the email and click the Send button. You can find full details here:.
In the future, simply try to avoid viewing the Outbox while there are some messages in it. Wrong or changed password for the email account Symptom: you have created a new or modified an existing email account, or recently changed the password on your Internet email account. You can verify whether your password is correct by logging to your email account from the web.
If recently you have changed the password on your Internet mail account such as Gmail or Outlook.com, you need to change your account password in Outlook too. Go to the File tab Info, and then select Account Settings twice. In the Account Settings dialog window, select the account where you need to change the password and click the Change. Type a new password into the corresponding field and click Next Finish. Authentication with the mail server does not work or is not set up properly The first thing for you to do is to check the settings of your email account. In Outlook 2016, 2013 and 2010, go to the File tab and click Account Settings twice like we've just done when. In Outlook 2007, navigate to the Tools menu Account Settings Email.
In Outlook 2003 and earlier, head over to Tools E-mail accounts View or Change existing accounts. Double click on the account, and then click Tools menu Account Settings Email. Switch to the Outgoing server tab and make sure that your settings exactly match those recommended by your email provider. Keep in mind that some providers may require a password to send email. And don't check the ' Require Secure Password Authentication' option unless your mail server explicitly requires this. On the Advanced tab, check if the Outgoing Server port number is correct:.
Usually port 25 is used for SMTP accounts, though these days email providers tend to move to port 587. SMTP connections secured by an encrypted connection SSL work on TCP port 465. POP accounts usually run on port 110. IMAP email accounts use port 143. If you use Gmail as a POP or IMAP account, special settings are required:. If you use Gmail as a POP account, enter 995 on the 'Incoming server (POP3)' field and 465 on the 'Outgoing server (SMTP)' field. Select the option 'This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)'.
If you use Gmail as an IMAP account, enter 993 on the 'Incoming server (POP3)' field and 587 on 'Outgoing server (SMTP)'. Check the box 'This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)'. You can find the detailed step-by-step guidance for setting up Gmail accounts in this article:. Outlook is set to work offline or the mail server is offline Symptom: You can neither send nor receive email but you can access the Internet. The fastest way to check if you're connected or not is to look at the Status Bar at the bottom right-hand corner of the Outlook window. If you are offline, you will see this notification: To get connected, go to the Send / Receive tab, Preferences group and click the Work Offline button to toggle it off and bring you back online.
If your Outlook operates in the online mode, but your messages are still stuck in the Outbox, make sure that your mail server is working. To check the Internet connection, simply open your internet browser and if it works and you can surf the web, then most likely your mail server is down at the moment. If it is the case, you can either push your IT person or administrator, or have a little coffee break and relax until they get it up and running again:) No account is set as the default one Symptom: you are able to reply to emails but cannot send the newly created messages. One of the possible reasons might be configuring your email account using a pre-configured script provided by your admin.
You can see which of your email accounts is the default one, if any, by opening the Account Setting dialog. In Outlook 2016, 2013 and 2010, you go to File Account Settings. For Outlook 2007 and older, please see the. The default Outlook account has a corresponding note next to it and a little tick left to it, as you can see in the screenshot below. If none of your email accounts is chosen as the default one, select the needed account by clicking on it and then click Set as Default. Using a program that accesses Outlook data files (.pst or.ost) Symptoms: Sending email works for a while, then stops and messages become stuck in the Outbox.
You may also get the following error when trying to send, receive, read or delete a message: An unknown error has occurred. 0x80040119 or 0x80040600. To cope with this problem, try to restart Outlook in this way:.
Close Outlook. Use Task Manager to ensure there are no hanging outlook.exe processes. Restart Outlook. You can also use the Inbox Repair Tool to scan the.pst file for errors and repair it. The Inbox Repair Tool resides in various locations, depending on your operating system. Please use the instructions provided by Microsoft for different Windows versions:.
If the above does not help, disable or uninstall the software causing the problems. Antivirus or antispam software is scanning your outgoing email Symptoms: similar to the previous point. If the antivirus program is casing issues with sending email, first of all check your antivirus manufacture's web-site for updates, and then forums or user communities for solutions and workarounds. Disabling email scanning may help too. You should not be afraid to do this because this option is not really necessary, it is simply an extra precaution or maybe a holdover from the early days of anti-virus programs. In fact, even with the email scanning option turned off, all modern antivirus software will continue to work and check incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email messages and attachments. Also, you can try to set a timeout by going to Account Settings More Settings Advanced tab.
If the above does not help, look for an alternative antivirus program. You may have a great temptation not to use any antivirus at all, but think twice before doing this. As you understand, this would leave your computer vulnerable and defenseless against viruses and malicious software that are in abundance these days and which could permanently destroy your system and information you store on your hard drive. As they say 'of two evils.' I hope this article will help you to efficiently cope with email messages stuck in your Outbox. I definitely learned a couple of useful things when writing it:). Hi, I am getting desperate!
I use gmail via Outlook 2003 (POP3 port 995 and SMTP 465). Since 23rd January 2014 (right after midnight, while I was stil online) I mostly (!) cannot send emails - they get stuck in Outbox. I did however successfully sent a couple of testing emails (from Tools menu testing as well as plain txt emails to my husband), yet I took me 5 - 7 retrial send/receive clicking. Email with attachment is mission impossible to get through. Also strange is the fact when sending test email (Test account settings) tonight, I got the reply 'specified server was found, but there was no response from the server.
Please verify ssl information.' Yet I received two testing emails anyway? On the other hand in the send/receive progress window 'sending complete' information occured, but the email got stuck in Outbox despite that. Please help!!
Hi Petra, Most likely the problem is either on your Internet service provider' side or Gmail. It looks like SMTP 465 port intermittently loses connection because your test messages were sent only after several send/receive attempts. BTW, in case of troubles with sending mail via port 465 (with SSL), Google recommends trying to use port 25 (with SSL).
You can find more details and troubleshooting steps here: If the above does not help, then try contacting the support service of your ISP and Google. Sorry, Clive, I don't have any other ideas. Just a few more things to check that could possibly help pin down the source of the problem: - Do you have 1 or several accounts in Outlook? If the latter, do you have the same issue in all of the accounts? - If you have any third-party Outlook add-ins installed, try to temporary disable them one by one and each time check sending. Do the same for anti-virus software. If nothing helps, maybe you can contact BTinternet suport to check whether it is a known issue?
I have experienced most of the problems I read about here and thanks for the help. But lately I noticed Outlook 2007 hangs up completely if I try to send mail with attachment greater than 5MB.
All open Outlook windows go completely dead and I have to stop the application with Task Manager. The program stops instantly when I click the Send button, so I don't think it's a problem with the IP (Google) and it all works fine as long as I don't attach any files over 5Mb.
There are no error messages so it's hard to diagnose the problem. Tried searching several other forums and nobody reports exactly this behavior. I reduced.pst size to less than 2GB, it makes no difference. I'm running Windows7, with Google as IP, outgoing server IMAP, port 465, SSL. I recently switched to Windows 8 and Outlook 365.
At first, my Outlook worked fine, but then I started to notice mail stuck in my Outbox. I have checked out all of the steps above and nothing works. I contacted Digis and they said that it was not anything that they could fix. It is a problem with Outlook.
I receive mail with no problems. My Account Settings are all as configured by Digis. I have sent and received 'test' messages from within the Account Settings windows, but I still cannot send my own 'test' message using the Send/Receive button. It still sits in the Outbox. I have restarted the computer and restarted Outlook.
I have even run the Repair function. Nothing works.
I turned off AVG - no change. I am about ready to switch to Incredimail. Hi Svetlana, It's great you take the effort to help people, and sorry for sharing another problem with you. I carefully studied your list of malfunctions but mine isn't there. Here is my case: I have Windows 8 and Outlook 2013 (365), which works well at home (using wifi). When I connect by another wifi network, I can still receive mail, but I cannot send any. The mails are stuck in the outbox.
Back home they are sent at once. With my previous laptop (Windows 7 and Outlook 2010), I didn't have this problem using the same wifi networks outdoors. So I am dazzled.
Is the problem in the laptop? In the wifi network?
In the settings? In Windows 8? In Outlook 2013? Or in the virus scanner (Norton versus McAfee)? I cannot think of a consistent explanation and have no clue. Best regards Douwe.
I had this exact same problem and for the life of me couldn't figure out what was causing it. I called Office 365 support and they didn't have a solution either.
I even did a hard reset on the router and no difference. Out of desperation, I swapped out their D-Link Router with a Linksys router and the problem disappeared. There may have been a setting on the D-Link router I could have changed, but I figured a hard reset should let email pass through, so I just swapped out the router. I thought I would post this in case others were having the same issue.
Hope it helps, Mark. I am facing a delay problem from my gmail to outlook 2010.
I receive new emails when i check on my web Gmail but when i open my outlook (gmail configured through pop.googlemail.com & smtp.googlemail.com) port 995 (ssl) and smtp 587 (Tls). Till 2 weeks back it was working perfectly but now it take almost 1 hour for my outlook to be updated with my new emails. Outlook shows that it is downloading email (e.g 1 of 5) but when it finish this indication, outlook is not updated with new emails. Regards Aftab. Hi, Recently we have migrated from Google to Office 365. I have used Outlook 2010 to download my mailbox with Google. Google App sync with the option of limit download size of the mailbox.
But when configuring Microsoft mail solution, as per the available facts only Outlook 2013 is supporting for download limit which starting from 1 month duration. Presently i am experiencing a problem due to outlook getting stuck while work on draft or deleted e-mails folders.
I have already tried with exchange mode and IMAP mode but problem remain same. Appreciate your help on this to find out a solution to overcome from this. Thank you & regards, Sameera Udesh. Hi, We have configured a Office 365 email account in Laptop. There we are experiencing this problem, mails get stuck in outbox. We have to click on Send/Receive All Folders to force it to leave the outbox. I want to confirm if it happens because 1.
The account is configured on Local Administrator account instead of user domain log in. It was configured on more than on device 3-Laptops(2 are Active), 3-4 Mobile devices (only 1 is active now) all other devices have been formatted. 3.In one Laptop it is MS Office 2013, other MS Office 2010 this is the one in which we are facing problem, it does not prompt for password even it s changed. Where as it prompts for password in the domain user profile log in.
Sorry if my explanation is too long. But to explain you better and to fix it.