Mail stuck in OUTBOX

T

The Hun

Using OL 2002; new Sony laptop

PROBLEM: Cannot Send or Receive email

1. Error message: 0x8004060C

2. There is a one-sentence email (no attachments) stuck in my Outbox.

3. It actually went out because I got a reply that was accessible by
logging into my mailbox via webmail.

4. When trying to Delete or Move the email stuck in my Outlook
Outbox, I get this ERROR Message: "The messaging interface has
returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, try restarting
Outlook."

5. I have restarted Outlook several times.

6. I have rebooted the whole system several times.

7. I contacted my IP and we cleared out all incoming email.

8. After doing all of the above, I have restarted and rebooted again
but the email is still stuck in the Outbox and I still cannot Send or
Receive with Outlook.

Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks,
 
T

The Hun

Using OL 2002; new Sony laptop

PROBLEM: Cannot Send or Receive email

1. Error message: 0x8004060C

2. There is a one-sentence email (no attachments) stuck in my Outbox.

3. It actually went out because I got a reply that was accessible by
logging into my mailbox via webmail.

4. When trying to Delete or Move the email stuck in my Outlook
Outbox, I get this ERROR Message: "The messaging interface has
returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, try restarting
Outlook."

5. I have restarted Outlook several times.

6. I have rebooted the whole system several times.

7. I contacted my IP and we cleared out all incoming email.

8. After doing all of the above, I have restarted and rebooted again
but the email is still stuck in the Outbox and I still cannot Send or
Receive with Outlook.

Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks,

MORE INFO about my PROBLEM:

If my problem is because my ver. of Outlook is full, does anyone know
how I can begin deleting emails to reduce the size? Clicking Delete,
or pressing the Delete key won't let me delete the email. I think
there's another way to delete them, maybe one at a time, but I can't
recall how to do it.

Thanks.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304863

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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, The Hun asked:

| Using OL 2002; new Sony laptop
|
| PROBLEM: Cannot Send or Receive email
|
| 1. Error message: 0x8004060C
|
| 2. There is a one-sentence email (no attachments) stuck in my Outbox.
|
| 3. It actually went out because I got a reply that was accessible by
| logging into my mailbox via webmail.
|
| 4. When trying to Delete or Move the email stuck in my Outlook
| Outbox, I get this ERROR Message: "The messaging interface has
| returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, try restarting
| Outlook."
|
| 5. I have restarted Outlook several times.
|
| 6. I have rebooted the whole system several times.
|
| 7. I contacted my IP and we cleared out all incoming email.
|
| 8. After doing all of the above, I have restarted and rebooted again
| but the email is still stuck in the Outbox and I still cannot Send or
| Receive with Outlook.
|
| Does anyone have a fix?
|
| Thanks,
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, The Hun asked:

|| Using OL 2002; new Sony laptop
||
|| PROBLEM: Cannot Send or Receive email
||
|| 1. Error message: 0x8004060C
||
|| 2. There is a one-sentence email (no attachments) stuck in my
|| Outbox.
||
|| 3. It actually went out because I got a reply that was accessible by
|| logging into my mailbox via webmail.
||
|| 4. When trying to Delete or Move the email stuck in my Outlook
|| Outbox, I get this ERROR Message: "The messaging interface has
|| returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, try restarting
|| Outlook."
||
|| 5. I have restarted Outlook several times.
||
|| 6. I have rebooted the whole system several times.
||
|| 7. I contacted my IP and we cleared out all incoming email.
||
|| 8. After doing all of the above, I have restarted and rebooted again
|| but the email is still stuck in the Outbox and I still cannot Send or
|| Receive with Outlook.
||
|| Does anyone have a fix?
||
|| Thanks,
|
| MORE INFO about my PROBLEM:
|
| If my problem is because my ver. of Outlook is full, does anyone know
| how I can begin deleting emails to reduce the size? Clicking Delete,
| or pressing the Delete key won't let me delete the email. I think
| there's another way to delete them, maybe one at a time, but I can't
| recall how to do it.
|
| Thanks.
 
R

RonInNaper

I have found that I must
1) Go to Tools-->Options and turn off the automatic send/receive checks.
Otherwise it seems to keep sending the same e-mail over and over again;
apparently because it never finishes the send/receive it never closes out the
Outbox e-mail. So the next time it does an automatic send/receive, it goes
through the same thing again.
2) Go to your inbox or folders and start deleting e-mails you don't need,
especially the larger ones. I often first alphabetize the "from" column by
clicking on it (maybe twice). Then I scroll down the list and look for names
of e-mails that are just junk mail that I can select and delete as a large
group. THE SECRET IS TO PRESS SHIFT-DELETE, not just delete.
3) Try a manual send/receive by clicking the button. Hopefully your Outbox
will be emptied. If not, try selecting the item being sent and press
shift-delete.

Good Luck!
 

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