A very large message is stuck in my outbox and won't delete

[Rose]

I accidentally pressed 'send' after attaching five photos without reducing
the size. I realised it would create a problem when it was still sending
five minutes later and ten minutes later. I could not delete it nor open the
message as it said message had already begun to transmit. That was one week
ago - it is still trying to send each time I press send/receive and slowing
down everything - it is very frustrating and causing problems for me running
my home business.
Please help! I tried the office assistant option of going to Outlook in
safe mode. The firewall option arguably was not applicable in my case, nor
did I feel comfortable trying option 3 - I don't think that would have worked.

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

Select File->Work Offline. Completely close Outlook (use Task Manager to
verify) then reopen and delete from Outbox.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Rose asked:

| I accidentally pressed 'send' after attaching five photos without
| reducing
| the size. I realised it would create a problem when it was still
| sending five minutes later and ten minutes later. I could not delete
| it nor open the message as it said message had already begun to
| transmit. That was one week ago - it is still trying to send each
| time I press send/receive and slowing down everything - it is very
| frustrating and causing problems for me running my home business.
| Please help! I tried the office assistant option of going to Outlook
| in
| safe mode. The firewall option arguably was not applicable in my
| case, nor did I feel comfortable trying option 3 - I don't think that
| would have worked.