Mail stuck in outbox

[robbiebax]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

After months of having my mail forwarding work, starting this weekend, I could receive messages into entourage, but couldn't send from entourage. Everything is still in my outbox, regardless of hte POP address I use (I have a few different accounts) And all of the email accounts themselves are working--I can send from the web interface, and I can receive messages right in my entourage mailbox.

I get this message: An operation on the server timed out. The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net traffic.

Ideas?

Thanks!

 

[robbiebax]

Hi jolly roger--
yes, it is hard for me to believe that for the past 2 days, both Yahoo and GoDaddy (my 2 email accounts) have servers that are down, overloaded and too much traffic. Especially since i'm having no trouble receiving email and i'm able to send from the web clients...
Robbie

 

[m.a.mart]

So....is there a solution to this problem? It has persisted for more than a week. Please, Apple, release an integrated email/calendar/contacts package, so we don't have to mess with Microsoft!

 

[Diane Ross]

After months of having my mail forwarding work, starting this weekend, I could
receive messages into entourage, but couldn't send from entourage. Everything
is still in my outbox, regardless of hte POP address I use (I have a few
different accounts) And all of the email accounts themselves are working

Entourage 2008 is better about sending other emails if one particular email
will not send. I suspect that you have a bad email that is blocking send.
Remove all emails to Drafts. Now open each one and select "Send" from the
email. I find this sends some problem emails. If not, I copy/paste into a
new email and it sends.

Send & Receive Basics:

1. If you can receive but not send then you have a bad SMTP configuration
2. If you can send but not receive you have a bad POP or IMAP configuration

You can try re-entering info.
You can delete account and create a new one.
Using copy/paste can result in an extra space being added. Type carefully.
Check your Keychain for corruption.