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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / OE 5.x / June 2004Sent mail sends but stays in outbox !!
Hi. When I send any mail it goes ok but gets stuck in my outbox and does not transfer to the sent items folder. If I send a new e-mail that goes ok but then adds to the items in mt outbox so everytime i send and recieve mail it resends the items that are stuck in my outbox. Any ideas? Running Windows XP Home, Outlook express, through Firewall and using Norton Antivirus. Thanks, Sean Most likely you have either a corrupted Outbox folder or a corrupted Sent Items folder. - Close Outlook Express. - OE5+: Locate the file outbox.dbx in the mail directory and delete it. You can use Start, Find (or Search), Files or Folders, outbox.dbx to find it. On Win2000 you need enable the display of Hidden or System files in the folder options and XP you need to use the advanced options to find Hidden or System files. (You can also determine the location by looking in OE at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder.) - Open Outlook Express again. It will create a new empty Outbox. If you still have a problem, Sent Items may be corrupted. - Close Outlook Express - Rename the file Sent Items.dbx to Sentold.dbx You can use Start, Find (or Search), Files or Folders, "Sent Items.dbx" to find it. On Win2000 you need enable the display of Hidden or System files in the folder options and XP you need to use the advanced options to find Hidden or System files. (You can also determine the location by looking in OE at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder.) - Open Outlook Express again. - It will create a new empty Sent Items. - The following program may be able to recover some of the messages from the Sentold.dbx file. DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx With a very large DBX file, this can take hours or days. - You can then open OE and select the Sent Items and drag the recovered EML files back into it.  SignatureMike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm > Hi. When I send any mail it goes ok but gets stuck in my > outbox and does not transfer to the sent items folder. If [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Sean Hi. I will give this a try. Thanks. Sean >-----Original Message----- >Most likely you have either a corrupted Outbox folder or a corrupted Sent Items folder. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Files or Folders, "Sent Items.dbx" to find it. On Win2000 you need enable the display of >Hidden or System files in the folder options and XP you need to use the advanced options >to find Hidden or System files. (You can also determine the location by looking in OE at >Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder.) >- Open Outlook Express again. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >. Hello, I am writing from Brazil. I am having the same problem. If I click X (exclusion) a copy of the e-mails goes to the trash but the e-mails remain stuck in the outbox and every time I start Outlook, it starts sending them again!!! When they come to the end of the sending proccess, an ! appears without any error message! It started so suddenly and I have 19 e-mails in the outbox and really do not know if all the people had received them all the times I started Outlook. This would quite boring to those people receiving the same message six, seven, eight times!!! Thanks for posting the helping message. I'll try it right now. Geane >-----Original Message----- >Hi. [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] >> >. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > now. > Geane The Outbox is probably corrupt. Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance and see where OE is storing its files. Close OE. Go there with Windows Explorer and delete Outbox.dbx. With Win2K and WinXP it will be a hidden file. OE will create a new one when you reopen it. If you think the Outbox may have messages you want to recover, instead of deleting it, move, not copy, it to an empty Windows folder and then use DBXtract to recover the messages. DBXtract (free): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ SignatureFrank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email http://www.fjsmjs.com Protect your PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ > Most likely you have either a corrupted Outbox folder or a corrupted Sent Items folder. > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > > > Sean Michael, I have this exact same problem with Outlook (not Express), but when searching for the outbox.dbx file, the only one found is for Outlook Express. Are there different instructions for fixing this problem in Outlook? Thanks in advance! Melanie > Most likely you have either a corrupted Outbox folder or a corrupted Sent Items folder. > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > > > Sean For problems with Outlook, try one of these newsgroups: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Calendaring news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.configuration news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Contacts news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Fax news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.General news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.installation news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.interop news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.printing news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_AddIns news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_VBA news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.ThirdPartyUtil Or visit www.slipstick.com for answers to many of the questions about using Outlook. SignatureJim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express Please reply only to newsgroup. > Michael, > [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] >> > >> > Sean Hey, I figured it out by reading one of the replies below. The problem was a little different than mine, but it gave me an idea. It said the sent box might be too full, and it was. That fixed my problem! Thanks, Jim~ Melanie > For problems with Outlook, try one of these newsgroups: > [quoted text clipped - 74 lines] > >> > > >> > Sean Glad to hear it's fixed. Thanks for the feedback. SignatureJim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express Please reply only to newsgroup. > Hey, I figured it out by reading one of the replies below. The problem was > a little different than mine, but it gave me an idea. It said the sent box [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Sean |
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