• Mail App On Mac Messages Stuck In Outbox 2017
• Messages Stuck In Outbox Mac Mail

When, once in a while and often due to an obscure cause, an email fails to send in Windows Live Mail, it may get stuck in the Outbox folder. This folder holds messages while they are in the process of being sent—from the time you have just clicked Send until the outgoing mail server's acknowledgment that the message has been received for delivery. May 21, 2017  #1: Resend iPhone Email Stuck in Outbox. Try resending he email message through the iOS Mail outbox with these steps: Launch Mail, go to “Mailboxes” and select “Outbox”. Tap on the message that is stuck in the outbox (this will have a stuck email message and a “!” icon in red beside it, or a status spinning indicator).

How to delete email stuck in Outbox of Outlook?

When you sending an email message that is too large for your email server, it will be stuck in your Outlook Outbox and hardly be removed. For easily delete the stuck email from Outbox, please follow the below tutorial.

Delete email stuck in Outbox with Work Offline feature

Delete email stuck in Outbox in Outlook

You can easily delete stuck email in Outlook as follows.

1. Go to Send / Receive tab, and then click Work Offline. See screenshot:

2. After clicking Work Offline, you will see the Working Offline showing on the Status Bar.

3. Close the Outlook application and restart it.

4. Get into the Outbox by clicking it. Select the emails and then right click, then select Delete from the right clicking menu. Or you can just select the messages and press Delete key on the keyboard. See screenshot:

5. After deleting the stuck email message from the Outbox, please click the Work Offline button again to connect to the Internet.

Delete email stuck in Outbox with Kutools for Outlook

If you have Kutools for Outlook, you can quickly remove all stuck messages in Oubox at once.Please do as this:

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1. Go to the Outbox folder, and then click Kutools > Remove Stuck Messages, see screenshot:

2. And then a message box is popped out to remind you restart the Outlook to make this feature take effect, see screenshot:

3. Click OK, and restart the Outlook, now, you can see all the stuck emails have been deleted as you need

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Click here to return to the '10.7: Mac Mail - Get the Outbox back' hint

Surely the Outbox is a vestige from days when people weren't connected to the Internet all the time. Messages would sit there until you connected to the internet, and then they would be sent.
These days, messages are sent as soon as you .. err.. send them, so there's no longer a need for this limbo.

Mail App On Mac Messages Stuck In Outbox 2017

'Many of us are very particular about email delivery and want to know if we have messages waiting to go out.'
Isn't it more likely that many people assume their message has been sent, unless the Outbox appears?

Some people travel a lot, and find that the internet is actually not always available everywhere. In fact, it turns out that there are quite a lot of places where it's not. Furthermore, some people have things like corporate email servers which require them to be connected to a VPN to send email when offsite, which they are often not, whether because of lack of an internet connection or other issues. The problem is compounded by the fact that when you are frequently offline, Mail seems to do a somewhat bad job at actually sending things when you do come back online. Or so one might suspect, but it's hard to verify and even harder to report bugs when the outbox isn't visible to _show_ that you've got waiting outbound messages.

There's also the case where you're using Mac Mail to access an Exchange server and your Exchange presence is down (this is the problem I had yesterday which left me looking for an Outbox to verify delivery.. or the lack thereof.. and is what prompted my solution.. yes, I'm the author of the hint). In this case, I had full internet connectivity, but the mail server was having problems and I needed to see the contents of the Outbox to know when things were working again, etc.

I have a corporate account that used to be like this in the old days. No VPN, no mail going out or coming. With time the corp IT changed and now we do not suffer the 'Outbox' issue.
The only times I really want to check my Outbox is when the mail does not go and that happens when there are problems and Mail shows me the box.
It is a nice to have option to show the outbox. I believe that Mail should have a setting to enable or disable it.

Rather than creating the bogus SMTP server couldn't I just take my Mac offline (turn off Airport and/or ethernet) and try to send an email using an existing server in order to get the Outbox to show? (I would try this myself but I already tried your hint and haven't figured how to remove the Outbox icon yet.)

I was able to do this more simply by: disconnect from broadband, send e-mail to self, Outbox appears and can be dragged into Favourites bar.
Remember to reconnect!

I didn't have to set a bogus smtp server, just turn of Airport (WiFi) on your computer or disconnect any ethernet cable or turn off any other way that you use to connect to internet. Send an email and automatically it will be sent to the Outbox that will appear, then just move it to the favorites bar.
It's a lot easier this way.
Thank you for the tip.

No, thank you.

This is not working for me. I get the message that the server is offline, but no offer to send it later and no appearance of an Out mailbox.

I am returning to report that this morning the Outbox appeared when I opened the mail app. So I too now have one permanently!

Nice tip, thanks!

Messages Stuck In Outbox Mac Mail

Great tip, extremely helpful.
Google app download for mac. Outbound mail seems to be a bit unreliable, so it's great to be easily able to see if there is anything stuck in the outbox.