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Emails won't send
Name: Paul Date: November 22, 2000 at 09:37:03 Pacific
Comment:
I'm having a very weird problem with my Win98 SE system. Whenever I try to send an email, the message goes to the outbox and stays there! It won't send even when I go into the outbox and highlight the message and press send. I'm running OE 5 and all the information (servers, account info) is correct. Does anyone have an idea of what could be the problem?
Name: charlie Date: November 22, 2000 at 09:48:50 Pacific
Reply:
My friend had a similar problem before, where the email would sit in the outbox but not send.
Find the settings that specify when to send your mail.. you want to set it so that it sends immediately.
sorry i forgot the specific menus but bascially after you do this it shouldn't hold the mail anymore and should ship it straight out.
provided of course your email is set up properly and was working before.
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Response Number 2
Name: Floyd Fairbanks Date: November 22, 2000 at 10:03:43 Pacific
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Could be that the provider or a line is down between your system and the email server.
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Response Number 3
Name: zzyzx Date: November 22, 2000 at 12:28:33 Pacific
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Yep, I'll bet it's your provider. I know that if you use Netzero's email, then you can only send email through their internet service. It gets pretty annoying.
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Response Number 4
Name: andy Date: November 22, 2000 at 19:45:05 Pacific
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Hi. I had a similar problem, try making sure you are actually online, then open your Outlook or email software, click on send/recieve, this will make sure your email server is working and should send anything sitting in your outbox. Sound's silly but I also had a similar problem to you, the email would not be sent by clicking send in the actual message and would just go to the outbox, try the send/receive button on the main toolbar as described. Worked for me.
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Response Number 5
Name: nbsp Date: December 1, 2000 at 04:33:53 Pacific
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