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Marty - 28 Apr 2005 22:26 GMT

I e-mailed something with an attachment that seemed to be taking forever, so
I said the hell with it, opened the Outbox and hit "Delete."

All that accomplished was keeping the thing from the Sent Items folder,
since the recipient got it anyways. So, does that mean finality once "Send"
is clicked, or is there some way to stop it? Is it also the same with
"Receive", if there is no rule to delete messages over such-and-such size?

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Jim Pickering - 28 Apr 2005 23:52 GMT

Whatever parts of it that were sent cannot be retrieved or cancelled. (if it
was a multipart message). Only effective way to stop a Send is to
disconnect from the internet.

A message rule to delete messages over a particular size only applies to
incoming messages although in some versions of Outlook Express, you have to
choose the number of "lines" of an incoming message as the criteria. (and
each line would equate to approximately 4 KB) Later versions allow you to
select the size in KB.

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>I e-mailed something with an attachment that seemed to be taking forever,
>so
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> is clicked, or is there some way to stop it? Is it also the same with
> "Receive", if there is no rule to delete messages over such-and-such size?

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Marty - 29 Apr 2005 17:30 GMT

Thank you Jim.

> Whatever parts of it that were sent cannot be retrieved or cancelled. (if it
> was a multipart message). Only effective way to stop a Send is to
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> each line would equate to approximately 4 KB) Later versions allow you to
> select the size in KB.

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6

> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. No
> one gets paid to help here, and the response rate from those that are helped
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> > is clicked, or is there some way to stop it? Is it also the same with
> > "Receive", if there is no rule to delete messages over such-and-such size?

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Jim Pickering - 29 Apr 2005 17:50 GMT

You're welcome.

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> Thank you Jim.
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>> to
>> select the size in KB.

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