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Unsent messages in outbox
"Michelle" wrote: I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust have the same problem I don't think I'm opening my account properly do I sign in with my msn account e-mail address. and follow throught as if I were getting mail in and out through msn? |
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Unsent messages in outbox
I had this problem (cannot connect to smtp...- the ISP email computer)
occur on my wife's machine yesterday when the comcast highspeed went out for a while. I copies the contents of the message, deleted the message in the outbox, and then had her recreate the message for sending. Message then was sent . Michelle wrote: I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? |
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Unsent messages in outbox
When I try to delete the 1st message in the OUTBOX that seems to be holding
up the sending of subsequent messages, I get a message "Unknown error has occurred". Then another box drops down with the message "Deleting messages" but none get deleted. "Patsy Dalton" wrote: "Michelle" wrote: I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust have the same problem I don't think I'm opening my account properly do I sign in with my msn account e-mail address. and follow throught as if I were getting mail in and out through msn? |
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Unsent messages in outbox
Welcome to the club!
There are a few workarounds floating around, but several people have reported severe corruption of their message store afterwards, so I don't recommend the current crop of workarounds. If you really can't send with Windows Mail due to the stuck message in the Outbox, then either send that message with web mail, or else install another email program like Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. Gary VanderMolen "Cecil" wrote in message ... When I try to delete the 1st message in the OUTBOX that seems to be holding up the sending of subsequent messages, I get a message "Unknown error has occurred". Then another box drops down with the message "Deleting messages" but none get deleted. "Patsy Dalton" wrote: "Michelle" wrote: I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust have the same problem I don't think I'm opening my account properly do I sign in with my msn account e-mail address. and follow throught as if I were getting mail in and out through msn? |
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Unsent messages in outbox
Michelle - Did your WinMail ever send any messages at all?
If not, contacting your internet service provider (ISP) is likely needed to get their account settings worked out. They are too arcane & specific to discuss here. I've spent a lot of time doing that with some installations, once it works you're good to go. If so, then as Gary replied, there are workarounds here to fix a known symptom for an issue that MS/Vista installations have where randomly a message suddenly gets stuck in a WinMail box for no apparent reason. If it is the outbox, it blocks sending more mail. You have to be a little more than novice to implement the corrective steps though. See what you can find in other threads around here. Search on "outbox" or "stuck". I think Gary is referring to not recommending the threads that talk about deleting only a certain 'MessageStor' file because there are posts pointing out trouble & no fix is experienced with that but I'm not knowledgeable enough. MS had me delete the whole WinMail email storage folder named 'Local Folder' and have the system regenerate it. So far that has not caused me any trouble & fixed my sending issue. "Michelle" wrote: I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust |
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Unsent messages in outbox
Hi, Michelle.
If you get that error message again, please copy it and post it here verbatim. Even if it is confusing to you (and maybe to me), it will mean a lot to the folks here who can help you. (POP3 is the current version of Post Office Protocol, or something like that.) Your mail server name may not be correctly entered in Tools | Accounts, on the Server tab in Properties for your server. News servers don't always require passwords, but Mail servers usually do, and some of them require other security features, too, like SPA. And some mail servers will refuse to send mail unless you are logged on to them directly, rather than through another portal, even though they might download incoming mail for you. If you are still having the problem, please post back with more details. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64) "Michelle" wrote in message ... I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust |
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Unsent messages in outbox
when i try to delete the message in the outbox i get this messa
An unknown error has occured. (with an OK box) If i let it sit for severan seconds, a new box comes up: Deleting Message. this sits there for ever, never deleting the message. this message was sent out ok i beleave, if i go back and look at the message it says: Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again. this is getting annoining... please help to delete this. thanks. paul............. "R. C. White, MVP" wrote: Hi, Michelle. If you get that error message again, please copy it and post it here verbatim. Even if it is confusing to you (and maybe to me), it will mean a lot to the folks here who can help you. (POP3 is the current version of Post Office Protocol, or something like that.) Your mail server name may not be correctly entered in Tools | Accounts, on the Server tab in Properties for your server. News servers don't always require passwords, but Mail servers usually do, and some of them require other security features, too, like SPA. And some mail servers will refuse to send mail unless you are logged on to them directly, rather than through another portal, even though they might download incoming mail for you. If you are still having the problem, please post back with more details. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64) "Michelle" wrote in message ... I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust |
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Unsent messages in outbox
The only clear solution to this at the moment is to go to the Windows Mail
directory (Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder) and move everything from that directory to another directory. Then WinMail will start fresh. You can then use File | Import | Messages and point to the directory to which you moved the message store to recover the messages. steve "can't delete outbox message." can't delete outbox wrote in message ... when i try to delete the message in the outbox i get this messa An unknown error has occured. (with an OK box) If i let it sit for severan seconds, a new box comes up: Deleting Message. this sits there for ever, never deleting the message. this message was sent out ok i beleave, if i go back and look at the message it says: Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again. this is getting annoining... please help to delete this. thanks. paul............. "R. C. White, MVP" wrote: Hi, Michelle. If you get that error message again, please copy it and post it here verbatim. Even if it is confusing to you (and maybe to me), it will mean a lot to the folks here who can help you. (POP3 is the current version of Post Office Protocol, or something like that.) Your mail server name may not be correctly entered in Tools | Accounts, on the Server tab in Properties for your server. News servers don't always require passwords, but Mail servers usually do, and some of them require other security features, too, like SPA. And some mail servers will refuse to send mail unless you are logged on to them directly, rather than through another portal, even though they might download incoming mail for you. If you are still having the problem, please post back with more details. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64) "Michelle" wrote in message ... I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust |
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Unsent messages in outbox
For now, forget about deleting that stuck message, and ignore it.
Hopefully MS will come out with a fix soon. Gary VanderMolen "can't delete outbox message." can't delete outbox wrote in message ... when i try to delete the message in the outbox i get this messa An unknown error has occured. (with an OK box) If i let it sit for severan seconds, a new box comes up: Deleting Message. this sits there for ever, never deleting the message. this message was sent out ok i beleave, if i go back and look at the message it says: Message could not be displayed Windows Mail encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again. this is getting annoining... please help to delete this. thanks. paul............. "R. C. White, MVP" wrote: Hi, Michelle. If you get that error message again, please copy it and post it here verbatim. Even if it is confusing to you (and maybe to me), it will mean a lot to the folks here who can help you. (POP3 is the current version of Post Office Protocol, or something like that.) Your mail server name may not be correctly entered in Tools | Accounts, on the Server tab in Properties for your server. News servers don't always require passwords, but Mail servers usually do, and some of them require other security features, too, like SPA. And some mail servers will refuse to send mail unless you are logged on to them directly, rather than through another portal, even though they might download incoming mail for you. If you are still having the problem, please post back with more details. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64) "Michelle" wrote in message ... I have unsent messages in my outbox. I get an error message regarding the POP3 or something like that. What could the problem be? -- Michelle Maust |
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