Delete "stuck" outgoing messages

[brianstole]

I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email. The
challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
ones.

Brian Stole

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I ahve an outgoing message that has an attachment that is way too large to
send. The email is stuck in the send mode & I can't delete it. I stop the
send/receive & it still doesn't allow me to delete this outgoing email.
The
challenge is that it blocks other email from going out & slows up incoming
ones.

File - Work Offline.
Wait 5 minutes.
Try to delete message.
If it fails, File - Exit.
Wait 5 minutes.
Restart Outlook, stay offline.
Try to delete message.

 

[brianstole]

I've been trying this for days & staying off line did the trick.

Thanks

 

[Alarmfan]

I have this problem in Office 97(on XP pro)-please tell me where the "work
offline" option is??!! as in File - work offline-from what I've read it does
the trick but dumbo here can't find it!
Many thanks.

 

[Alarmfan]

Sorry to waste time, but I realised Offline may relate to IE, so I tried that
but to no avail.
Next question, in Outlook when I go to File, New, there is no Outlook Data
File menu, can anyone help please?
Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have this problem in Office 97(on XP pro)-please tell me where the
"work offline" option is??!! as in File - work offline-from what I've
read it does the trick but dumbo here can't find it!

Disconnect the network, then stop and restart Outlook. Try to delete the
message then.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry to waste time, but I realised Offline may relate to IE, so I
tried that but to no avail.
Next question, in Outlook when I go to File, New, there is no Outlook
Data File menu, can anyone help please?

That's because in Outlook 97 it's File>New>Personal Folders File.