How can I stop a message in my Outlook outbox that won't send?

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Thank YOU for posting the stes on how to delete an e-mail tht was stuck in the outbox...All I did was click file, work off line and deleted the file, it was that that simple!!! Thank you, Thank you!! P.S. The e-mail was literally sitting in my outbox for one day! THANK YOU!!

You can also use this as a guide for E-mail message with an attachment sent repeatedly to recipients in Microsoft Outlook - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011394141033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033

I tried the "work offline" from the file menu. What I didn't realize is the e mail in the out box which was too large to send would take a while to delete. After trying several times, I decided to wait for the hourglass to go away, and it worked just great!!!!!
Thanks for the lesson in patience!!!

That was so helpful! Thank you for posting this explanation!! I will visit your site again for other computer help when it is needed! :) Thanks again! What an easy fix....I've had that message in my outobox for 3 days!!

There is an email in my outbox 2KB(which was sent to me as an Outlook meeting request that I accepted) that I have been trying to delete since Friday 5/30, that just will not delete. I keep receiving error messages. This prevents me from sending other messages that I require to send.
I have tried everything you suggested above, plus calling my ISP,the IT dept of the company where the invitation originated and the WEBEX company to see if they could help from their end-to no avail.

Can you please help me?

Thank you kindly.

Thanks, Leo. Your tip saved me a lot of grief. Enjoy the Latte.

that cancel all did the trick thanks ever so much, I am glad I found this site. Will check back.

Thanks Leo! I deactivated my send server by putting an x infront of the smtp (I use Outlook). It took a couple of Send/Receives before I could get access to the stuck e-mail and fix my too large attachments.

Thank you so much.
I had this message stuck in my outbox for weeks and it was really starting to drive me nuts.
Simple yet really efficient.
You are my today's star

I had to take it a step further and open the message when i was offline and move it to another folder: file-move to folder-Deleted Items.
And then once they moved to the deleted items i could delete them without any hassles.

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