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

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Pulled the plug and was able to delete it. Many thanks. Aloha, Bob

Mine will not go away either. Since it was in the process of sending it is now stuck in limbo. I used the Work Offline option. I also tried using mbdvu32.exe to delete the message, again it was locked.

Thank you all for you valuable help.
I was stuck in the middle when i tried to send a zip folder which was 24MB. I forgot that its too large to send thru outlook.
Then ur help really helped. I disconnected LAN, shutdown outlook, open outlook, delete the file and then my problem was resolved.

Fantastic - I'd been trying to delete my 12MB email all night, and your solution took about 10 seconds.

Just wanted to thank you for the most elegant and simple method of deleting a too-long message from Outlook 2003. It works!

Your simple, low-tech solution, (pull the plug) worked great. Thanks.
Fred in Calagary

I use Outlook 2003 also and if you look at the bottom right where it says "sending message" or something similar, it allows you to right click your mouse and cancel sending the email. Then quickly delete it!!! It works!

Don't unplug anything it is a waste of time.
Outlook organized into folders "Inbox" ,"Outbox" and so on. Just Delete all messages in "Outbox" it is what Outlook is trying to send and all this never stopping sending stops in one second

THANX MATE THAT WAS SOOOOOO KOOL...IT WAS GONE IN SECONDS AND I WAS UP AND RUNNING AGAIN AS I WAS NOT ABLE TO SEND ANY MESSAGES AS THE FILE I WAS SENDING WAS SOOOOOOOO BIG....

Hi Guys! I know of two ways. This has happened to me a few times. First and easiest and about the same as pulling the plug is to click file and choose "Work offline" Second and a last resort if nothing else works is to click file and choose export to a file. Choose .PST then Personal folders (include sud folders) then export your mail box to a PST file. When exporting Outlook will not take the contents of the Outbox to a PST. Delete then recreate your mail account and import your PST file back in. This is a pain to do but it works if nothing else will!

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