# MS Outlook mail snag

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-mail-snag/150226>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 22, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-mail-snag/150226 "2003-01-22T16:06:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-mail-snag/150226/1 "2003-01-22T16:06:58Z")

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I use MS Outlook with a POP3/SMTP setup. I have changed my settings to “send and receive every 2 minutes” and unchecked “send message immediately”, in order that I have a chance to catch any mail that have inadvertantly been sent to the wrong person (someone I know nearly got in big doodoo recently becaue of this).

Thing is, while some mails faithfully go out at the end of the two minute window in which I hit the “Send” button, some of them get stuck, and are still in my outbox an hour later. If I open them up and hit “Send” again, then hit the “Send/Receive” button, they leave my outbox, but not unless I do this. This also seems to be affecting the receive part of the operation - if there’s a mail stuck in my outbox, I get a backlog of mail sitting on the POP server.

Anyone got any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-mail-snag/150226/2 "2003-01-22T18:14:32Z")

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What version of Outlook?

KB article [243670](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243670) mentions a patch for Outlook 2000, but it would only apply if you’re using Secure Password Authentication.