Outlook Express - outward emails get trapped in the outbox

[charliewilliams]

as the title suggests every time I send an email particularly with an attachment it spends an age in the outbox, eventually, and when I send them to myself as a test several copies of each email arrive. I thought it was something to do with Mcafee a/v but when I deselected the 'scan email and attachments' box the problem still continues. OE gives me an error message every time but not a reference number with it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CW

 

[Peddant]

From here - http://portal.gci.net/support/kb/kb79

This behavior can be caused by any of the following conditions:

You opened the e-mail message in your Outbox before the e-mail message is sent.

You are working offline and have not made a connection to the Internet.

Your sending options are not set to send e-mail messages immediately by using the correct connection.

Your mail folders or e-mail messages within the folders are damaged or corrupted.

 

[charliewilliams]

thanks very much for all this advice - I will work on it and let you know.
CW

 

[Jimbo420]

OE gives me an error message every time but not a reference number with it.

What is the error message you are getting?

 

[charliewilliams]

An unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP, Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x80004005

is the error message I get. I have searched for Outbox in order to delete it but Search command does not find it.

Again, any help much appreciated.

 

[Peddant]

X:\Documents and Settings\Users Profile Here\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{Here will be a set of numbers}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

You might have to show hidden files and folders to see it.HERE

 

[Tedster]

give thunderbird email client a try - much better than outlook.

 

[charliewilliams]

again many thanks for that, fellers...