Outlook for Mac 2011 - where is the outbox

[danida]

hello! I tried the solution above and managed to recover the emails sitting in the outbox, however, I am still unable to send them.. any suggestions?

thank you

[nainotsil]

MS really should know better.
I had a spare subscription to MS Office 365 so opted to load it on Mac as I've happily used Outlook since it started.
I had the same problem: large file with pics attached keeps trying to send itself but there's no way of deleting it because MS has mislaid the Outbox in Outlook 2011.
BY ACCIDENT I sent myself an appointment invitation from Calendar in Outlook with just a few words and the date in the To: line .... and lo and behold the Outlook box appeared with the invitation as an unsent file! I was able to delete the large miscreant file successfully BUT, by keeping the rogue invitation in Outlook (i.e. not deleting it) it's kept Outbox open.
Weird or what?
Best
Ian
UK

[dianeoforegon]

You'll need to create the email with smaller attachments. If there are no attachments, you can try copy/paste the contents into a new message and see if that sends.

BTW, for anyone following this thread, there is a script that will remove messages that you can't see in the Outbox. Note: it deletes them with no way to recover.

Delete Outbox Messages

http://www.scriptsformac.com/wp-cont...x_messages.zip

[gsweet-boulay]

Thanks for helping me find the outbox. It works but..
Ok, so I went into offline mode and yes, I could see the Outbox folder.
However, I can't drag any messages into it.
There are times when I want to send out several emaisl. I used to have them go to my drafts folder and after I've double checked everything, I'd drag all of them to the Outbox to send them all at once. At least that's what I used to do in Entourage. Anyone fix or figure out how to fix that problem.

Here is more info, I use FileMaker to generate emails that I want to send to students or club members. However, the email go to the drafts folder. Which I like because it gives me a chance to double check that everything is OK. I need to be able to drag all the files to the outbox instead of opening, one by one and then pressing send.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[kkumar]

I don't think you need to go to the nursing home. "...MS is incompetent on a level and scale that should be criminal..." Count me in on that referendum.

[rpaitich]

A few commented that they'd like to stop the mail being sent to allow them to delete an email. RedpointRik offered a good solution. Here's a solution I used:

*go to the very top bar, where the internet connection is shown; looks like an old-fashioned ladies' fan, for my wi-fi

*click on the "fan" and select "Turn Wi-Fi off"

*now you can double click the Outbox in Outlook and delete the email.

[pastorforbe]

Originally Posted by RedpointRik

Solution for the missing Outbox that I have found:
1. Select "Work Offline" in the Outlook menu
2. Force close Outlook
3. Re-open Outlook.
4. You will still be offline and able to see the Outbox with the message that you want to delete.
5. Go back to the Outlook menu and again select "Work Offline", which will un-check that option and allow you to do a S/R.

Editorial: It is not only Microsoft that slights Macintosh, many software vendors are cheesy about Mac support. It is simply the cross we bear...

Thanks a lot. That really helped.