{"id":1266,"date":"2013-04-18T07:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T07:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-04-18T07:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T07:42:06","slug":"dealing-with-email-stuck-in-the-outbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/dealing-with-email-stuck-in-the-outbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Email Stuck In The Outbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone once in while when using Outlook you\u2019ll get messages that just refuse to send. <\/p>\n<p>Looking down the folder list you see the dreaded number next to the Outbox that lets you know something isn\u2019t quite right<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"181\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the folder shows the message just sitting there. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"392\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You try double clicking the message and pressing the send button again, you\u2019ve pressed the \u201csend\/receive\u201d button, you\u2019ve restarted Outlook but it just sits there. <\/p>\n<p>The Outlook blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/b\/microsoft-outlook\/archive\/2012\/07\/06\/how-fix-email-stuck-in-outbox-in-outlook-.aspx\">has a decent post<\/a> with some things to try to help shoo the message along. But I thought I\u2019d share one of the tricks that generally works for me. <\/p>\n<p>What can sometimes be frustrating is that everything otherwise appears fine. Outlook is reporting as connected (you have checked that\u2019s not the problem though?) and inbound messages are still coming in<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"369\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s really trying to mock you other messages actually send ok!<\/p>\n<p>So my \u201ctip\u201d is actually pretty simple <\/p>\n<p>Drag the message into your Sent Items folder. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"384\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open the message from there and press the send button again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/image_thumb5.png\" width=\"361\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Message gone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone once in while when using Outlook you\u2019ll get messages that just refuse to send. 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