Hello everyone,

I seem to all of a sudden be unable to send e-mail properly in windows
mail. If I send an e-mail to myself for example it stays in my outbox.
I also have a message that was sent I think from within adobe
photoshop elements 5, which again is residing in my outbox and with
this file, if I try to delete it or move it I recieve an "unknown
error" dialogue box. I cannot do anything with this e-mail. It's
Stuck!

I spoke to my ISP and they said it may be a problem with mcafee and to
disable the e-mail scanner. This has not resolved the issue and in any
case, I would prefer to keep my security levels as they were and as
mcafee recommend (with e-mail scanned both ways).

Does anyone know how I can sort this out? I ought to be able to e-mail
to myself, I have this file in my outbox that will not move, and this
has only recently occurred!



Any help will be gratefuly recieved - alanbriggs

Go to Tools | Accounts

Highlight your email provider. Set it as default. Close window. Shut down
Windows Mail. It should now send immediately, as long as you have the option
chosen to do so in Tools | Options | Send

A reboot may be necessary.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"alanbriggs" <alan73briggs@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1177536941.498568.47910@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I seem to all of a sudden be unable to send e-mail properly in windows
> mail. If I send an e-mail to myself for example it stays in my outbox.
> I also have a message that was sent I think from within adobe
> photoshop elements 5, which again is residing in my outbox and with
> this file, if I try to delete it or move it I recieve an "unknown
> error" dialogue box. I cannot do anything with this e-mail. It's
> Stuck!
>
> I spoke to my ISP and they said it may be a problem with mcafee and to
> disable the e-mail scanner. This has not resolved the issue and in any
> case, I would prefer to keep my security levels as they were and as
> mcafee recommend (with e-mail scanned both ways).
>
> Does anyone know how I can sort this out? I ought to be able to e-mail
> to myself, I have this file in my outbox that will not move, and this
> has only recently occurred!
>
> Any help will be gratefuly recieved - alanbriggs
>

alanbriggs wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I seem to all of a sudden be unable to send e-mail properly in windows
> mail. If I send an e-mail to myself for example it stays in my outbox.
> I also have a message that was sent I think from within adobe
> photoshop elements 5, which again is residing in my outbox and with
> this file, if I try to delete it or move it I recieve an "unknown
> error" dialogue box. I cannot do anything with this e-mail. It's
> Stuck!
>
> I spoke to my ISP and they said it may be a problem with mcafee and to
> disable the e-mail scanner. This has not resolved the issue and in any
> case, I would prefer to keep my security levels as they were and as
> mcafee recommend (with e-mail scanned both ways).
>
> Does anyone know how I can sort this out? I ought to be able to e-mail
> to myself, I have this file in my outbox that will not move, and this
> has only recently occurred!
>
> Any help will be gratefuly recieved - alanbriggs
>

Is there an attachment? I've seen e-mails with large attachment get
hung this way on several occasions. If you have a lot of items in your
deleted folder it may not have room to delete the file. Empty your
deleted folder and then try to delete the message.

Here is a solution Windows Mail problems
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