OL 2003 send / recieve problems

[Beholder]

two problems:

1.) If for some reason a message won't send right away and would stay in my
Outbox (for example, I forgot to use VPN, or the network cable is not
connected) it won't send at all. Every time I exit Outlook it asks me to wait
because I have messages waiting, but it won't send them - no matter how many
times I press "send / recieve," and even if I got 20 e-mails in the meant
time. The only thing I can do is to delete it from my Outbox and rewrite the
whole e-mail. Why won't OL send the waiting-to-be-sent emails and how do I
fix that?

2.) I noticed that OL will time out if I try to send big messages, say 2mb
and more. I used to think it only happens with my Gmail account, but it
happens with my other accounts as well. If I log in to the specific account
through the web, I won't have any problems. Why does OL time out on me and
tells me there's a problem with the service?

Can anyone help?

 

[Brian Tillman]

1.) If for some reason a message won't send right away and would stay
in my Outbox (for example, I forgot to use VPN, or the network cable
is not connected) it won't send at all. Every time I exit Outlook it
asks me to wait because I have messages waiting, but it won't send
them - no matter how many times I press "send / recieve," and even if
I got 20 e-mails in the meant time. The only thing I can do is to
delete it from my Outbox and rewrite the whole e-mail. Why won't OL
send the waiting-to-be-sent emails and how do I fix that?

I can't help on this one.

2.) I noticed that OL will time out if I try to send big messages,
say 2mb and more. I used to think it only happens with my Gmail
account, but it happens with my other accounts as well. If I log in
to the specific account through the web, I won't have any problems.
Why does OL time out on me and tells me there's a problem with the
service?

1) Disable any scanning of outgoing messages. 2) Increase the server timeout
value on the Advanced tab of your account properties pages.