Message stuck in the Outbox + unwillingly folders sync

[Amir]

I am working with Outlook 2007, on Windows Vista Ultimate.

In the last weeks, I have a very annoying problem.

On certain messages (seems to me like random), Outlook won't send the
message.
The symptoms are: I a trying to send the message, but the message remains
stuck in the outbox. Immediately, when I look on Outlook's yellow icon on
the tray, it is blinking with combined icon of an envelope, and if I hover
the mouse over this icon, I get a message that "Outlook is synchronizing
folders". Outlook also consumes about 30-40% of the CPU power, until that
message is deleted.

Further more, if I delete the message, and try to rewrite it and send the
same message, it's always happened again with the same message.

reading info on misc forums, I created new mail profile, and new PST file,
and copied all my info to that file with no good. I disables and uninstalled
all addins, I reinstall Outlook itself.
I also disabled Exchange view for every mail folder.

I am so frustrated. I don't know what else can be done.

Any comments will be mostly appreciated.

Amir.

 

[Vilhiem]

Amir,

I too have been having that same exact problem. And I also tried a variety
of hopeful solutions, including turning-off the RSS feeds. Weird thing, ...
the problem seemed to disappear around the March 11th DST change, ... and
just today on March 13th, the problem has returned.

Just FYI: Running Windows Vista on a brand new machine I built which has 2
GB RAM and an nVidia 8800 video Card. I first installed Outlook 2003 onto the
machine, and once I saw it had problems remembering the account passwords
(wonderful Microsoft); I bought and installed Outlook 2007 (did not
un-install 2003, but let the 2007 application do it for me).

I can only imagine that Microsoft is aware of this problem and is pretending
that there is not a bunch of us out here suffering with this problem.

Warning to all: stick with Windows XP and Outlook 2003 (it works)

 

[Amir]

It's so frustrating, when you invest your money in a defected software. I
find myself using Gmail to send those problematic messages, since I don't
know what else to do.

Usually I am the guy that everybody is coming to ask for help, but this time
I am helpless.

I am turning red, when I read your computer specs, I hope that soon I will
upgrade mine as well. It seems that those problem don't a damn about
computer specs

Amir.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vilhiem" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.general
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:51 AM
Subject: RE: Message stuck in the Outbox + unwillingly folders sync

 

[Vilhiem]

Amir,

I just discovered something interesting regarding this problem.
It seems that this bug occurs when an outgoing e-mail message gets stuck in
the Outbox. I noticed that if I DELETE that message in the Outbox, ... the
problem goes away.

I am not sure WHY these messages get stuck in the Outbox?
But I believe I may be on to something here that could help Microsoft find a
technical solution.

 

[Vilhiem]

UPDATE:

Think I may have discovered an even better solution:

I was wondering WHY certain e-mails would get stuck in the Outbox, ... while
others did not.

Seems that if you go to your Outlook Contacts, and simply Open and Close a
contact with which you are having problems, ... you will get a prompt asking
if you want to SAVE changes. It may seem strange because you did not make any
changes yet. But if you simply agree and say YES (save), then go and send an
e-mail to that contact, ... it does NOT get stuck in the Outbox.

Again, I am not sure as to WHY this happens, ... but that does seem to
eliminate the problem.

 

[Amir]

Vilhiem,

HALLELUJAH!!! brilliant idea. IT WORKED (sorry I am shouting here, I am
fighting with it several weeks!!!)

I was always able to delete those stuck messages AND if I was trying to
write the message again to the same contact, the message always got stuck
again.

I tried now to write a message to a problematic contact, before the saving,
it got stuck, but going into the contact, and reply "YES" to the save
option, made the email go out as it should from the beginning.

I don't know why it happened from the beginning, but at least something can
solve this.

Have a great day (or night - wherever you are)
Amir.

 

[profiler]

Not sure if this will help. I have had the problem serveral time even
with outlook 2003 and forgetting when I changed the outgoing server it
doesn't send. I simply created another folder in the out box and
dragged it to the temp folder and then deleted it. Then created
another email.

Problem gone.
Hope that is what happened to you.
and hope it helps you too.

 

[DavinD]

Vilheim,

Wow! Thanks. I have been struggling with this for weeks and happened upon
this post.

 

[Michel]

Incredible, but this works! I had given up Outlook 2007 altoghether and
started using Vista's Windows Mail, which works perfectly with exactly the
same account settings.
So I'll open, close and 'save' all of my 200+ contacts to get rid of this
problem.

Thank you VERY much for this workaround!

 

[TM]

I just had the same problem, Outlook 2007, I had tried to send a message
while being logged into a VPN. It bounced with the No Relaying message. I
then remembered that I was in the VPN, closed the VPN. But now my messages
were stuck in the outbox, I could delete them easily enough but each message,
including ones to myself were stuck. Closed and reopened, checked the
contacts as described above, still nothing would send.
I removed the Profile from the Mail area in the Control Panel, nothing.
Eventually I looked in Task Manager -> Processes and found an Outlook stuck
in memory, ending that solved it for me.