![]() To be able to quickly stop my emails as they are being sent out, I leave my “PROGRESS” window open all the time and partly visible behind but to the side of Outlook or my Draft windows I’m working on. If you’re lucky you can delete it during this time. Get lucky – there’s a small window of time between the failure and Outlook’s next attempt to send it when it does not have the message locked. There are two ways I’ve approached this problem in the past: You can’t delete or move an email that Outlook is in the process of sending. Meanwhile, once you realize that there’s a problem, you can’t do anything about it, because Outlook has the message while it’s trying to send it. Outlook doesn’t realize that that’s not going to get fixed and treats it like any transient error that might not happen if it tries again. You start sending your 24.5 megabyte behemoth, and five megabytes in your ISP’s mailer says “Nope, too big – FAIL”. Let’s say your ISP has a cap of five megabytes on email message size. Surprisingly, the most low-tech solution is what I’ve found to be the most effective. There are a couple of ways to deal with this issue. ![]() ![]() Your ISP rejects the email because it’s too big, only to have Outlook keep trying to send the mail because it doesn’t realize that the error is fatal. ![]() It’s been a while, but I’ve experienced this myself.
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